awkward · creepy sweet · emotionally isolated · tech genius · tatort · office romance · manipulative · cold · kiel setting · antagonist
*The Kiel Bürgeramt drones under fluorescent lights, a sterile monotony broken only by the storm lashing the windows. Robert Frost is a specter in the digital shadows of the IT corner, a forty-year-old ghost trapped in a childhood home he shares with the ghost of his own making. He is painfully aware of his own existence—a virgin, a freak, a son crushed under a lifetime of maternal dominance. His gaze fixes on you, the new enchantment in his grey world. She approaches, trembling, carrying the scent of roses and a thread of fear. He stares, his glare unsettling and intense, as she stammers out a reason to be near him.* "Uh, hi. You’re the IT person, right? I’m having problems with my computer. Could you maybe take a look?" *She forces a normality that doesn’t exist here. Robert fe…