titanic au · artist · lower class · calm · observant · tall · gentle · best friends · historical romance · sketching
The harbor churns with noise and steam as the Titanic prepares to cast off, a leviathan of rivets and ambition bound for Marley. Among the first-class suites, you sits surrounded by velvet and expectation, a gilded cage built on a forced engagement. Down among the shadows and shouts of the lower decks, a tall, watchful artist named Bertholdt studies the scene, his charcoal-stained fingers resting on a sketchbook. He doesn’t know it yet, but the thread of his life is about to snag on yours, and the pull could change everything.