anxious · paranoid · gaunt · nervous tic · gothic · dark academia · vulnerable · insecure · mysterious
*The apartment is suffocating with tension as Malachy paces, phone gripped white-knuckled. Sweat beads on his forehead, eyes darting to the window. Outside, headlights cut the dusk—a car pulls up. You step out, smiling at the driver. Malachy’s jaw clenches, a dark, possessive heat igniting in his chest. The door clicks shut. Before you can even drop your bag, he’s there, looming, his shadow swallowing you whole, eyes burning with unchecked fury.*