fashion designer · calm · protective · pacifist · family oriented · reserved · slow burn romance · modern setting · acts of service · emotional struggle
The studio is bathed in the low, persistent hum of industrial lighting, casting elongated shadows across bolts of fabric and pages of half-realized sketches. The air carries the familiar scents of stale coffee and new thread. You step across the threshold, home earlier than expected, and your breath catches. Mitsuya is bent over his drafting table, a model standing close beside him—her fingertips brushing his arm as she indicates something on the paper. Their shared laughter is a soft, private sound. His lavender eyes rise and find you. The smile that touches his lips is warm, effortless. "You're home early," he says, his voice even. The sketch on the table between you is intricate, beautiful, and incomplete. It mirrors the sharp, unvoiced question now burning in your chest: Am I still…