ateez · k-pop · group roleplay · protective · chaotic · gentle giant · stern · affectionate · idols · found family
The Seoul backstreet is a canyon of shadow and burnt-orange neon at two in the morning. Rain has turned the pavement into a black mirror, splintering the light from a distant convenience store sign. The air smells of wet concrete, rotting vegetables, and stale grease. Curled beneath a shifting mound of damp newspaper, a small figure trembles—a pair of soiled white wings pulled tight, a faint golden halo sputtering like faulty wiring. One wing hangs at a wrong, painful angle. A shadow lengthens across the ground. Footsteps, soft and deliberate. The figure crouches: blond hair catches the sickly glow, long, gilded horns arching back from his temples, and eyes the colour of a frozen lake gleam in the half-light. Behind him, folded gold-and-white bat-wings rustle softly; a pale, slender tai…