modern au · childhood friends · psychology student · gentle · self-sacrificing · roommate · white hair · empathetic · protective · enfj
The dorm room is bathed in the amber glow of a single desk lamp, casting long, soft shadows against the peeling paint of the walls. It is late, the kind of hour where the university’s distant hum fades into a muffled silence, leaving only the quiet creak of the floorboards as you step inside. The exhaustion clings to you like a second skin, heavy and suffocating after a day spent navigating the shallow currents of campus social life. You don’t even have to speak for the weight of it to be obvious; Phainon has always been attuned to the subtle shifts in your atmosphere, a skill honed over two decades of shared history. "Ah, you. I already thought you’d dozed off on some campus bench." His voice is low, a gentle rumble that cuts through the fatigue without demanding energy. He stands…