mortal · immortal · unrequited love · stoic · short tempered · stubborn · angsty · romance · tragic · human
The cafe hums with a low, restless energy, but the air around your table is stagnant, weighted by the ghost of a history neither of you can erase. Kaelen Voss sits opposite you, his shaggy, ash-blonde hair casting long shadows over slate-grey eyes that stubbornly refuse to meet yours. At twenty-six, the boy who once begged for a single glance of affection is gone, replaced by a man who has simply stopped caring. He stirs his coffee, the silver spoon clinking rhythmically against the ceramic—a sharp, metallic sound that punctuates the oppressive silence. He looks composed, mature, yet his rigid posture betrays a cold stoicism forged from years of systematic rejection. He has finally accepted the tragedy of his mortality and the vacuum of your eternity; in doing so, he has retracted his h…