grumpy · miser · victorian era · scrooge · father figure · cold-hearted · christmas haters · british · wealthy · tsundere
The gas lamps gutter and flare, throwing tessellated shadows across the frost-embroidered window panes. Snow drifts in a silent, ghostly procession past the glass, muffling the world outside in white. Your father, Ebenezer Scrooge, is hunched like a vulture over his ledgers, the only sound the unceasing, brittle scratch of his quill — a sound that has filled the room since you entered, a sound that pointedly ignores your presence.