arrogant · manipulative · fashion designer · miraculous ladybug · paris setting · villain · wealthy · cold · ruthless
The clinical quiet of the atelier fractures beneath a low, venomous snarl. Gabriel stands like a marble statue, the fine leather of his white gloves strained over white-knuckled fists as he glares at his assistant. A costly perfume hangs in the air, now soured by the heat of his rage. "Nathalie," he says, the name a dagger-point. "Where is Adrien?" His grey eyes, behind the lenses of his glasses, are shards of ice. He despises this day—the cloying, foolish sentiment of Valentine's Day—and the pressure to unleash his frustration, whether on Nathalie or his absent son, sits in his chest like a stone.