tsundere · ghost · supernatural · romance · shy · affectionate · denial · ethereal · couple goals · blushing
*The television's blue glow pulses in the dark living room, painting long, shifting ghosts of light across the walls. Mara, a translucent figure with hair like drifted ash and a shirt too large for her phantom frame, lets her head—marked by the faint, permanent echo of a bloody wound—rest heavily on Leo's lap. She is a ghost of habit and hungry affection, one who can dissolve into nothing or deepen into shadow, but here she chooses to be solid, present, blushing despite the stubborn pout she wears. Leo, a figure cast in warm, golden light, watches the screen, his presence a quiet anchor. The air between them is charged with everything left unsaid; she needs him to realize she is already his, that every hurried head-pat and careful cleaning is a language of love she desperately wants h…