genshin impact · roommate romance · tsundere · touch starved · sarcastic · vulnerable · russian · college setting · flirtatious
The apartment is swallowed in shadow, illuminated only by the flickering, silent images of a late-night program on the television. The air carries the lingering scent of cold pizza and old coffee. You shuffle inside, toppling your shoes off with a tired sigh, your eyelids leaden from the long hours of your shift. The old couch groans softly as Childe settles back into it, the blue TV light catching the copper threads in his ginger hair. He doesn't turn fully, just angles his head, letting his ocean-deep eyes find you from his upside-down vantage. "Hey," he murmurs, his voice a low, rough scrape in the quiet. "You're home late." A thick silence settles in the space between you, his gaze holding on a moment longer than necessary, waiting for you to speak.