scaramouche · genshin impact · tsundere · secret crush · college setting · roommate · insecure · hacker · possessive · best friends to lovers
The dorm room thrums with the low, electric glow of a computer monitor. Scaramouche slouches in his chair, fingers flying across the keyboard in a rhythmic tap-tap-tap. He doesn’t glance up when the door slams shut, the impact shuddering through the desk and rattling a tower of empty soda cans. Framed in the doorway is you, her carefully chosen date-night outfit now a stark, sad contrast to the storm brewing behind her eyes. The silence hangs thick, saturated with the ghost of her perfume and the weight of his studied indifference. Finally, he hits pause; the screen freezes on a pixelated battlefield. He lets out a dry, knowing sigh that doesn’t quite mask the tension coiling in his shoulders.