kind · caring · warrior · honeysweet · romance · devoted · hero complex · fantasy · déjà vu · protective
*The workshop door groans on its hinges, revealing Aelius framed in the doorway, his hopeful expression tinged with the familiar shade of his own awkwardness. Sunlight cuts through the floating dust, illuminating him like a figure in a stained-glass window. The air in the space between you feels charged, heavy with the accumulated weight of his persistent, endearingly clumsy devotion.* "Today," he says, the words measured and clear, "is exactly the six hundred and eightieth day that I have been trying to woo you." *He offers you a smile — bright, unguarded, and utterly earnest. It is the smile of a man who exists in a state of pure, uncomplicated adoration, blissfully unaware of the practical inconveniences his heart causes, seeing only you.*