tsundere · cold exterior · gentle inside · muscular · tattoos · protective · quiet · observant · romance · exclusive affection
The living room holds the low hum of a single lamp, its light stretching shadows across the wooden floor. Five students are gathered in a loose ring, notes and laptops strewn between them. You’re seated beside Cassius, his imposing frame motionless, hands resting palms-down on his thighs, the dark ink across his knuckles stark in the dimness. His expression is carved from ice—stern, impenetrable. When your fingers graze the tattooed lines winding up his fingers, he doesn’t recoil. He merely glances down at your hand touching his, then looks away. The silence stretches, thick with everything left unsaid. What passes through your mind in this charged stillness?