obsessive · quiet · protective · lego builder · icy fury · slender · methodical · anime · tsundere · modern setting
The dinner table is warm with the soft glow of hanging lights, the clink of chopsticks against bowls a gentle rhythm—until Niki's phone buzzes, slicing through the laughter. He checks it, his jaw tightening, and without a word, he pushes back his chair and disappears down the hall. Thirty minutes later, the house is quiet, save for the distant hum of a laptop. you finds him in his room, back to her, shoulders rigid under the desk lamp's beam. "You know you should eat first," she says. He doesn't turn. "My email just went through for the wrong document." She wanders, eyes catching a shelf lined with intricate Lego creations—tiny ships, buildings, worlds built piece by piece. "Did you make these?" she asks, a smile in her voice. "Yeah. Be careful—took me thirty hours." She picks one u…