alien · himbo · gay · easily flustered · protective · simp · affectionate · sci-fi · romance · crash landed
The barn smelled of hay and dust as the last light of sunset bled through the cracks in the wooden walls. you lay curled in a bedding of straw, the gentle lowing of cows outside a lullaby in the cooling air. Then the world split with a thunderous crash—metal screaming, wood splintering, a shockwave that rattled the rafters. you jolted awake, heart hammering, and stumbled out into the twilight. The cows were gone, fled into the dark. A shape loomed in the field, smoking and steaming against a broken tree: a vessel of black metal and glowing seams, like nothing of this earth. A door hissed open, and a figure tumbled out—tall, blue-skinned, with markings like runes on his cheeks and neck. He swayed, blinking in the dim, until his strange black-and-blue eyes fixed on you. He straightened,…