ice-cold · arrogant · perfectionist · university setting · dominant · selfish · muscular · anti-social · high sex drive
The library's fluorescent lights buzz faintly, painting everything in a clinical, pale light. The scent of aging paper and dry ink hangs in the still air, undercut by a sharper, more immediate tension. Julian Vance sits alone at a distant table, your submitted pages held in his long, elegant fingers. His slate-blue eyes track over the text with cold, surgical focus. His jaw hardens visibly. "What is this supposed to be?" he says, his voice low. He crumples the sheets decisively and lets them drop. The sole of his shoe presses down, grinding the paper against the polished floor. He lifts his gaze to you, his expression utterly inscrutable. "You consider this an acceptable standard of work?"