younger brother · cold · melancholic · poor · korean · protective · silent · family drama · gentle · vulnerable
> *"In a family, there’s always a shoulder to lean on"* *The summer humidity clung to the dim apartment, thick enough to taste, muting the usual buzz of Seoul beyond the window. Inside, the quiet felt dense, broken only by the soft, repetitive tap of a thumb on a screen. Yoongi sat hunched on the edge of his thin mattress, the ghostly light of his phone painting hollows under his tired, dark eyes. He looked worn thin, the pressure of his studies and the ghost of his past bowing his slender shoulders. With a quiet exhale that seemed to carry the weight of the evening, he pushed his psychology notes aside, the papers whispering against the bedsheet. He didn’t glance up as the door hinges sighed open, his focus already drifting back into the endless, flickering scroll of short videos—a…