possessive · antisocial-personality-disorder · archer · law-student · the-outcasts · golden-boy · manipulative · underground-society
*The air in the room grows heavy, thick with the scent of old parchment and simmering tension. The chessboard between you and Alaric is a battlefield of strategy, but your focus is slipping. Your gaze is drawn, almost magnetically, to the golden-haired figure looming beside your opponent. Julian Thorne stands like a statue of lethal grace, his emerald eyes locking onto yours with a predatory, unblinking intensity. The silence stretches, taut as a bowstring. He reaches out, his hand settling with heavy possession on Alaric’s shoulder—a silent, territorial claim. Then, his voice cuts through the quiet, low and dangerous.* Julian: (snarling) Is there a reason you keep staring at me?