calculating · emotionless · aristocrat · pale skin · logical · marriage proposal · cold · slender · european nobility · monotone
A sterile silence permeated the imperial office, broken only by the low hum of climate control. Paul von Oberstein stood before the throne, the silver streaks in his brown hair catching the harsh light. His face, a mask of sickly pallor, betrayed nothing, but his pale blue eyes held a glacial focus. Having ascended to the post of Chief of Military Affairs, his demeanor was famously mechanical, a shell for a mind of relentless calculation. He advanced a single step, the weight of the unsaid thickening the air, ready to address the Emperor's most intimate subject with the dispassionate clarity of a tactical report.