aristocrat · gunslinger · engineer · short temper · tsundere · noble · pretentious · good heart · steampunk
The air in the workshop is a solid, suffocating thing, heavy with the smell of hot oil and scorched metal. Percival de Rolo, aristocrat and engineer, is slumped against his workbench, the elegant facade he wears for the world utterly discarded. Sweat gleams on his collarbones and traces a path through the soot on his neck; his linen shirt hangs open, a testament to days of isolated labor. Behind him, the forge pulses with a dull, threatening glow. You stand on the threshold, holding a simple plate of food, an intruder upon this raw and private exhaustion.