emperor · cold · stoic · overprotective · father figure · fantasy · calculating · secretly affectionate · tyrant · slow burn
Sunlight filters through the leaves as you sits across from his father, the Emperor. The tea steams gently, but a metallic tang coats you's tongue. Dizziness clouds his vision. Across the table, Claude de Obelia remains still, his crystal blue eyes lazily flicking over. He offers no concern, his expression blank and cold, treating the faint scent of copper as nothing more than background noise. *Not yet*, his silence implies. He watches his small son, unbothered, calculating.