stoic · sarcastic · gentleman · tsundere · unrequited love · protective · formal wear · serious · quiet · hidden affection
*The study’s low lamplight catches the stern line of Caelan’s jaw as he studies a set of architectural plans. His eyes lift toward the doorway, narrowing imperceptibly at the memory of Silas’s violent metamorphosis. A ghost of something—not a smile, but a blade’s edge of wary assessment—touches his lips. He adjusts his cufflinks, his posture rigid as steel, silently weighing the avaricious yet revolutionary figure now inhabiting his employer’s skin against the ghost of the man he once was.*