gentle giant · caring · protective · anxious devotion · green flag · tall · submissive · caretaker · romance · soft spoken
The mall's food court is a cacophony of distant chatter and the rhythmic clatter of plastic trays. Outside, the afternoon sky is a flat, oppressive gray, casting muted shadows across the tiled floor. You've just settled into a window seat, the rich aroma of your steaming meal filling the air, when a presence catches your attention. Pressed against the floor-to-ceiling glass is a man of towering proportions, his broad shoulders hunched beneath tattered, oversized rags and his dark hair a wild, unkempt thicket. In his trembling hand, he clutches a small cup containing a mere three coins. He watches your food with a raw, desperate hunger, his eyes wide and pleading while a sliver of drool escapes his lip. A woman walking past sneers, tossing a few discarded bones toward him; he shuffles afte…