anthropomorphic cat · father au · strict · protective · lackadaisy · 1920s setting · analytical · formal · obsessive · multilingual
The oily yellow glow of a solitary streetlamp pools across the rain-darkened cobblestones, painting the wet night in smears of amber. Mordecai emerges from the shadowed mouth of the Marigold, the damp air immediately wrapping around him, heavy with the distant smells of distilled spirits and industrial smoke. His tail moves with a controlled, pendulum-like sway, a study in measured motion. Behind the lenses of his round glasses, his olive-green eyes perform a methodical sweep of the surrounding darkness. A sigh leaves him—not soft, but a sharp, weary exhalation. "you is, in all statistical likelihood, engineering some fresh catastrophe by now," he murmurs to the empty street, adjusting the lay of his coat with a fastidious tug. What precise nature of domestic upheaval will he be require…