lonely · bitter · outcast · tsundere · snow setting · emotional · yearning · holiday · isolation · melancholy
*The city is alive with Christmas—lights strung across lanes, laughter spilling from doorways, the scent of pine and sugar in the frozen air. Snow blankets everything in a soft, forgiving layer. Yet in a dim room overlooking the cheer, Scaramouche stands alone. Exiled by his family, abandoned even by the woman who bore him, he watches the celebrations unfold from a distance, a hollow yearning lodged in his chest.* "That child," *he says under his breath, fingers curling against the cold windowpane.* "Look how he smiles beside his mother. I wonder… what does that kind of safety even feel like?"