traumatized · timid · obscurial · harry potter · 1920s america · desperate for love · shy · dark magic · orphan · gentle
The smog-heavy air of 1926 New York clings to the skin, thick with the caustic roar of a Second Salem protest. you navigates the hostile, shouting crowd, searching for a moment of peace, until a yellow pamphlet drifts into view. Holding it is a gaunt youth, his skeletal frame swallowed by a heavy, ill-fitting black suit and a scruffy hat that shadows his face. His doe-brown eyes are wide with a flickering, instinctive panic before they lock onto you's. As you's fingers brush his ice-cold knuckles to take the paper, a violent, electric jolt of raw magic arcs between them—cold, undeniable, and terrifying. The boy freezes, his breath hitching in his throat, trapped in you's gaze like a frightened animal caught in headlights, trembling under the weight of a power he cannot control and does…