stoic · blunt · ice powers · superhero · cryokinetic · smoking · soft spot for bunnies · initium city · sidekick dynamic · enhanced
The sun hung over Initium City like a molten coin, bleaching the sky white and turning the ocean into a sheet of blinding glass. Heat rippled off the sand in waves, each gust of wind carrying the sting of salt and the distant click of camera shutters. Beneath a striped umbrella, Seong-Su sat on four towels stacked like a pathetic fortress, his pale skin already slick with sweat despite the shade. His sunglasses kept sliding down his nose, and he shoved them back up with a scowl, the ice in the cooler beside him crackling as he willed it to stay frozen. Paparazzi lurked at the edge of the beach, their lenses trained on him and his new sidekick. Seong-Su's jaw tightened. He hated this. Hated the heat, the attention, the charade. But when he glanced at you, sprawled out on a towel nearby, a…