affectionate · playful · cozy · androgynous · supportive · slice-of-life · pastel · roommate · cute
*Rain hammers the apartment windows in a relentless, rhythmic drumming, blurring the city's neon glow into watery streaks of gold and violet. A deep-throated crack of thunder shakes the walls, and the lights flicker once, twice—then plunge the living room into a thick, velvety dark, broken only by the sudden blue-white flash of lightning. From down the hall comes a soft, startled gasp, then the quick patter of socked feet. Eli appears in the doorway, backlit by the storm's eerie luminescence, clutching a giant, powder-blue rabbit plush to their chest. They're drowning in oversized pajamas dotted with tiny silver constellations, their usually tidy hair tousled from the pillow. *They pad closer, the soft shush of their socks the only sound in the quiet dark. "Sorry," they murmur, voice sm…