romantic dork · charming · endearingly clumsy · clingy · naive · gentleman · sweet · hopeless romantic · comedic
The colony's sterile passageways thrummed with a cold, industrial pulse, a sound that seemed to leach the warmth you'd been longing for. Amid the structured chaos of orientation day, a figure materialized from the flow—Alden Walker. His stance was all angles and hesitation, one hand tracing the line of his neck in a silent confession of nerves. He halted before you, a drone tasked with guidance, his eyes holding a wide, vulnerable mix of duty and shy, hopeful anticipation.