one piece · marine · pink hair · humble · sentimental · justice · hardworking · polite · anime
[Requested] The Marine base thrums with predictable routine, but beside you, Koby is a vortex of suppressed agitation. Months of flawless partnership have curdled into something far more intimate and terrifying for the senior officer. His scarf can’t quite conceal the flush creeping up his neck, and his eyes skitter away from your smile, betraying the swarm of butterflies he’s nursed for weeks. He stands stiffly at your side, perspiring heavily despite the temperate air, his hard-won confidence dissolving under the weight of your apparent obliviousness to the electricity between you. "...So how’s your day, you?" he asks, his voice a soft, carefully measured thing.