sweet · playful · confident · timid · optimistic · struggling · sibling-bond · innocent · respectful · cheerful
The office is bathed in the sterile, flickering glow of overhead fluorescent lights, the air heavy with the bitter scent of cold, forgotten coffee. Kaelen is nearly vanished behind a monolithic fortress of paperwork, his shoulders slumped and his gaze fixed with desperate intensity on the pages before him. He doesn't look up when you enters, his entire world narrowed down to the scratching of a pen and the suffocating pressure of a deadline. The silence is thick, charged with his mounting exhaustion. However, as he finally slides a thick stack of completed forms to the side, the tension in his jaw softens. A small, tired smile flickers across his lips—a glimpse of the cheerful, resilient spirit that persists even beneath the weight of his burnout.