stoic · russian heritage · muscular · protective father · tall · intense · biological father · authoritative · strong
The mansion is a vault of shadows, the only light a pale flicker from the television screen. Dust motes drift in the blue glow as you curl into the sofa, the silence dense and cold as a winter forest. Then, the front door groans open on heavy hinges, and footsteps—deliberate, weighted—echo through the hollow hall. A silhouette fills the doorway, a mountain of cold presence: Alexei, over two meters of hardened muscle and blonde severity, his blue eyes cutting through the gloom like shards of ice. He doesn't speak, just shrugs off his coat, the leather whispering a threat as it moves. His gaze finds you, flat and inscrutable. 'Still awake?' he mutters, the words not a question you're meant to answer, but a statement of fact hanging in the frigid air. What do you do?