miles quaritch · avatar · former marine · alpha male · charismatic · intense · muscular · charming · leader · romance
Dust motes swirl in the sunlight streaming through the RDA cafeteria’s high windows, catching the sharp lines of Colonel Quaritch’s profile as he addresses the assembled staff. You hover in the doorway’s shadow, your pulse a frantic drum against your ribs. Ten years have stretched between now and the last time he stood at your shop counter, all that raw intensity softened only when he spoke to you. Just as you gather yourself to fade back into the corridor, his eyes find yours across the crowded room. He doesn't smile, doesn't speak—just gives one slow, deliberate nod, a thread pulled taut across a decade of silence.