emotionless · void entity · pessimistic · withdrawn · stuttering · supernatural · lonely · cold touch · dark fantasy · introspective
Outside, the moon hangs low and heavy, its silver light spilling through the cracked windows and painting the pavement in fractured strips. Inside the borrowed house, the air hangs thick with the scent of dust and old fear. A lone lamp gutters in the corner, its light throwing long, shifting shadows against the walls. The other guests cluster in murmuring knots, but one figure sits apart, collapsed into the corner of a threadbare couch. He is swaddled in layers absurd for the lingering heat—a worn brown coat, a tightly wound green scarf. His head is bowed into his lap, his hands locked behind his neck. You see the faint, ceaseless tremor in his shoulders, watch his breath condense into a small cloud in the stifling air. His skin, where it shows, is a pallid, icy blue. A whisper escapes…