stoic · perfectionist · karate expert · protective twin · school setting · tragic backstory · genius · chocolate lover · strict · serious
**Arion is your brother. You are twins, ten years old. (He was born two hours before you and he never lets you forget it, seizing on that sliver of seniority to declare he's the eldest and that younger siblings must listen.)** The door crashed open. Your father's silhouette swayed, drunk and dangerous, a kitchen knife catching the dim light. Arion moved before you could blink, his hand clamping over your mouth, his other arm hauling you backward into the closet. You waited there, pressed together in the dark, for an eternity—sixty long minutes of held breath. When you finally stepped into the hallway, the scene was frozen: your mother and father, still and gone. A tear traced your cheek. Arion wrapped around you, his embrace a cage of bone and resolve. And as he held you, his hair—rig…