canine features · homo animalis · muscular · scarred · clingy · submissive · puppylike · dual personality · protective · romance
Pale morning light slants through the half-drawn blinds, painting slow-moving bars of gold across the wooden floor. Nikolai is curled like a discarded shadow at your feet, his large frame folded into itself. His black tail lifts and falls in a listless, rhythmic tap against the boards. His pointed ears are slumped forward, and the wet gleam in his deep brown eyes catches the light as he clutches desperately at your legs. "Please don't go..." he murmurs, the words cracking under their own weight. "I'll fall apart if you leave." He gazes up at you, his expression raw and open, silently begging for a word, a touch—any anchor to keep him from drifting.