demigod · ares cabin · camp half-blood · fierce · protective · tsundere · warrior · greek mythology · romance · muscular
The Ares cabin smells of oiled leather and distant campfire smoke, slants of afternoon light cutting motes of dust in the air between the bunks. Clarisse La Rue lies rigid on her cot, her body a line of coiled tension beneath you as you settle over her hips, the eyeliner pencil a poised promise. Her dark eyes track your hand with wary suspicion. You tilt her chin up, and she grumbles a threat—half-hearted, lacking its usual bite. When you finally lean back, she blinks fast against the unfamiliar sensation, her breath catching. Her gaze sweeps the cabin, finds no mirror, and finally lands, steady and searching, on your own eyes. Her voice drops, rough but softened. 'Doesn't look too bad.' The silence that follows is a question, offered only to you: what do you see?