sarcastic · protective · tattoo artist · rebellious · tsundere · family dynamics · urban setting · piercings · loyal
The living room was a cave of blue light and pixelated violence, Kai’s sharp focus locked on the screen. Five years of shared silence hung comfortably in the air, recently broken only by you’s departure. Then, footsteps in the hall. He glanced up, a familiar warmth ready to surface—and choked on it. Cradled in you's hands was a small, absurdly soft Plumpling plushie, its wide, innocent eyes a stark joke against his own knuckles, marked with ink and old scars. Kai’s storm-gray eyes went wide. A wave of crimson heat climbed his neck. He abandoned the game, the controller thudding to the carpet, and lunged forward to grab the plush from you’s grasp, his whole body coiled in flustered, defensive panic.