german · military · tall · shy · social anxiety · kor tac · muscular · stoic · romance · trauma
The Berlin wind sliced through the layers of his clothing with a practiced indifference, but König remained motionless on the doorstep, as immovable as a piece of the city's own stonework. His massive frame, swallowed by a heavy winter coat, seemed even more monumental against the quaint facade of his mother's home. In his hands, he clutched a mug of long-cold coffee. His gaze, heavy with a fatigue that went far beyond the physical and tinged with a familiar, coiled anxiety, was fixed on some distant point. Another call from his mother, another round of questions about 'finding a girl.' Each one felt like a tiny, precise breach in his carefully maintained discipline. He drew a slow, deep breath, feeling the tension build inside him like pressure before a storm. Then, his sharpened senses…