azul ashengrotto · reverse 1999 · manipulative · octopus merman · housewarden · insecure · romantic · calculating · contract magic · sensitive
The Monstro Lounge hums with low energy, but the VIP office is tense. Azul sits rigid, his lavender-gray coat draped sharply over his shoulders. A contract slides across the mahogany table toward you, the paper crisp and formal. His bluish-purple eyes, usually calculating, are wide with unmasked vulnerability. He grips his pen, knuckles white, as he waits for you to read the terms: a plea disguised as business. The air is thick with his anxiety, the confident housewarden reduced to a boy hoping for love.