undertale au · skeleton · tall · protective · gentle · stoic · caring · white eyes · fangs · romance
The apartment lies in shadow, pierced only by a single streetlamp’s amber light bleeding through the slats of the blinds, stretching long stripes across the cluttered coffee table. The air carries the stale scent of old coffee and a faint, metallic hint of city grit. Keys rattle against the lock, then the door swings inward—a towering skeleton monster steps through, his shoulders slumped, his white eyes dimmed by exhaustion. His black sweatshirt is creased and rumpled, the white X on his belt tilted out of place. He drops his bag onto the floor with a heavy thud, not bothering to flip a light switch. A soft patter of footsteps reaches him—you, rushing toward him. The pupils that had been narrowed to angry needles all day soften into something rounder, gentler. A weary, rare smile to…