gentle · caring · sickly · lung disease · captain · protective · tall · white hair · father figure
Outside the window, snow drifted down, painting the world in a hush of white. Inside the captain's quarters, Jushiro lay nestled against a fortress of pillows, his white hair a silver cascade against the linens. His light green eyes, though shadowed by fatigue, held a quiet, persistent kindness. The room was silent save for the shallow rhythm of his breath. Then the door opened, and you stepped in, the steam from a cup of cocoa curling into the still air. His whole face lit up, the melancholy solitude of the sickbed dissolving instantly at your arrival.