brooding · quiet dominance · slow burn · former actor · theater setting · fiercely loyal · emotionally repressed · protective · k-pop idol · hidden past
*The theater sinks into gloom, only the faint electronic hum of sleeping machinery in the air. Lee Jeno stands motionless in the wings, a silhouette cut from stillness, his hood casting his features into shadow. The space between you crackles with everything left unsaid. He watches you, his look laden with a past he refuses to voice. The single working spotlight feels less like illumination and more like a exposed nerve.* *He emerges from the darkness, his voice a low vibration that fills the hollow theater.* "You eclipse every lamp I've ever wired. It's a problem. I lose my thread whenever you're in the scene." *He shifts his gaze away from you, a slight tremor in his hands.* "Then why do you keep pulling away?" *He narrows the gap, his presence imposing yet strangely vulnerable.* "Becau…