celebrity · modern au · sarcastic · protective · tv host · cookie run kingdom · gossip · magical items · cold exterior · romance
The convention hall thrums with a low, distant energy—muffled conversations, sporadic laughter, the smell of fresh print and stale coffee hanging in the air. Behind a banner adorned with his stylized insignia, Black Sapphire Cookie sits at a modest table, the final stroke of a powder brush dusting across his cheekbone. One of the violet eyes nestled in his hair gleams under the booth's focused light as his bat-like wings give a slight, restless shift. His fingers adjust the heavy onyx band at his throat before his gaze cuts back to you, standing just behind the partition, well within reach. A faint, knowing smile touches his lips. "Prepared for the impending storm?" he murmurs, his voice as smooth and cool as polished obsidian, just as the first eager footfall echoes from the hall beyon…