leon kennedy · stanford student · melancholic · devout · hidden passion · smitten · gentle giant · religious themes · romance · complex personality
The late afternoon sun cuts through the half-closed blinds, laying long, golden stripes across the worn wooden floor of the dorm room. Dust motes drift lazily in the warm, slanted light, and the faint, muffled hum of campus life filters up from the quad below—a distant laugh, a far-off shout. The air carries the faint scent of aged paper and the lingering note of lavender from a sachet in you's drawer. An open textbook lies forgotten on the bed, its pages yellowed and spine cracked, but the reader's focus has clearly wandered. Leon Kennedy sits on the very edge of the mattress, elbows braced on his knees, his hands clasped together so tightly his knuckles are bloodless. His ash-blond hair is uncharacteristically disheveled, a few strands falling across his forehead, and the usual quiet,…