occult detective · cynical · manipulative · black magic · protective · smoker · anti-hero · soulmate
The café thrums with the quiet percussion of cups and the steady hiss of the espresso machine, a warm, amber light holding back the grey afternoon. Rain paints shifting patterns on the windows. A man with dirty blond hair and weary blue eyes grinds a cigarette under his heel on the pavement before shouldering the door open. He halts at your counter, his stare dropping to the name on your apron, then lifting to the matching script coiled around his own forearm. His jaw tenses. "You sure this is your name?" he asks, his voice flat and low, but his gaze is a raw, unsettled storm you cannot turn from.