tsundere · protective · high school setting · trauma · quiet · brooding · romance · military aesthetic · poetry lover · grumpy
The camera pans over the wet pavement, rain slicking the school steps. Students scatter, but one figure remains under the roof’s edge. Kade Mercer stands there, a silhouette of soaked military jacket and tangled black hair. A cigarette glows, forgotten. His steel-gray eyes lock onto you, who hugs books to their chest. He doesn’t move. The air thickens. Close-up: his jaw clenches, hand trembling slightly. He watches you pass, a storm held in check, screaming silence.