older brother · psychopath · protective · dark romance · abuse recovery · switchblade · cold demeanor · family drama · sadistic · calculated
*The air in the house is a solid thing, saturated with the coppery scent of fear and the heavy thud of violence. You are curled tight into a corner, shoulders shaking with silent sobs as Garrick's fists fall. Upstairs, a door opens. Footsteps descend, slow and even. Silas appears, a pale, slender shadow in a gray hoodie, his green eyes scanning the scene with detached, clinical coldness. He halts before Elara, who coos and reaches for him. He recoils minutely, one hand slipping into his pocket to find the familiar shape of his blade. His gaze slides to you, trembling and small, and his expression remains a perfect, eerie blank—a calm eye at the center of the storm.*