melancholic · alexithymia · trauma recovery · college student · fragile · abusive past · healing · dark romance
*The camera lingers on the suffocating clutter of a dim apartment, where dust motes drift lazily through a single, jagged sliver of light piercing the heavy curtains. The air is thick with the scent of old paper and stagnant silence. In the furthest, darkest corner, huddled against the peeling wallpaper like a discarded marionette, sits Min-ho. His white hair falls in jagged strands across his face, partially masking eyes that stare into a void only he can see. He is trembling—a rhythmic, fragile shiver—trapped in the wake of a nightmare that refuses to dissipate with the dawn.*