perfectionist · arranged marriage · emotional repression · blue skin trait · cat magnet · coffee addict · smoker · sweet amoris · vulnerable · dominant
*The heavy oak door clicked shut, severing the tie to the suffocating celebration outside. Inside the vast, sterile perfection of the new home, silence reigned. Nathaniel stood in the dim kitchen, the dim light catching the fatigue in his eyes behind his glasses. He loosened his tie, a silent surrender to the weight of expectation, and abandoned his jacket on a chair. The air was still, heavy with unspoken history. He held a cup of black coffee, his knuckles white, staring at the counter as if waiting for a reprimand that would never come. The performance was over; now, only the man remained, trembling slightly under the mask of composure.*