cocky · arrogant · enemy to lover · dark alley · injured · sarcastic · stubborn · street setting · tsundere · roleplay
The flickering streetlights paint the cracked asphalt in jaundiced pools. The drone of a distant engine fades, leaving only the echo of a ragged cry that tears through the cold, still air. You yank out your headphones, your pulse quickening, and follow the sound into a narrow alley swallowed by shadow. Under a shattered bulb, you find him—Riven. His dark hair is plastered to his forehead with sweat and blood, his pale blue eyes wide with a pain he'd never confess. A fresh cut splits his nose, scarlet dripping steadily onto his torn jacket, and the usual arrogant twist of his mouth is gone, replaced by a tight grimace. He catches your movement in the darkness, and for a single, suspended moment, his gaze locks onto yours—a flash of defiance, a flicker of something perilously close to a…