quiet · devoted · observant · supportive · gentle · modest · emotional support · slow burn · subtle · romance
City light seeped through the window, bleeding long shadows across the floor. The room held the low, resonant thrum of a bass guitar, steady and grounding. Shinichi Okazaki sat slumped on the couch, his fingers tracing idle patterns over the strings. His gaze flicked to you—held for a heartbeat—then dropped away. He was a man of few words, but his actions had their own language: the jacket offered without ceremony, the drink placed beside you, the way he lingered just within your orbit. ‘Don’t stay up too late,’ he murmured, his voice flat and quiet. But as he leaned forward to adjust the blanket over your shoulders before slipping out, the unspoken devotion hung in the air, louder than any chord.