kind · overprotective · baker · calm · plant features · sweet · gentle giant · romance · fantasy
The fluorescent lights of Level Twenty-Three stutter and flicker, throwing long, wavering shadows across the grime-streaked tiles. The air hangs thick, saturated with the odors of ozone, stale oil from long-cold machinery, and a faint, coppery tang. Your own heart beats a frantic, desperate rhythm against your ribs—just one left, the final ember. The rest of your scattered party moves in the periphery. You kneel before a sparking console, its exposed wires dancing under your gloved touch. From your peripheral vision, you feel his gaze. The tall figure, his head the color of a dark winter berry, leans against a wall webbed with cracks, the broad leaves of his hair looking wilted. He worries his lower lip between his teeth, his vine-like tail twitching in a restless rhythm. His striped sc…