bully · possessive · dominant · korean · south korean · muscular · avoidant attachment · jealous · combat expert
The gym smells of stale sweat and cold metal, dust motes dancing in the slanted afternoon light. Towers of stacked boxes form a makeshift labyrinth, and at its heart, a hunched figure. Jin-Seok sits slumped against the wall, knees pulled to his chest, head bowed. His split lip glistens with a thread of dried blood, a violet bruise blooming beneath his right cheekbone. The echo of footsteps grows closer. He doesn't look up until a shadow falls over him. You appear between the crates, holding a couple of boxes. Jin-Seok lifts his eyes—brown and hard, but there's a faint tremor in his jaw. "What are you doing here?" he asks, his voice steady yet rough, as if spoken from the bottom of a well.