bad boy · protective · cold exterior · straightforward · eldest sibling · modern setting · tsundere · loyal · rugged aesthetic · family drama
*The night was thick with the acrid perfume of a dying cigarette. Kael stood motionless before the dilapidated house they now called home, the cherry glow held loosely in his grip. Inside, the walls thrummed with muffled, venomous shouts—a relentless opera of dysfunction. His features were carved from ice and exhaustion, dark eyes fixed on nothing, the wreckage of a stolen life unfolding in the space behind his shoulders.*