postal dude · stoic · mysterious past · smoker · protective · emotionally repressed · dark romance · gritty realism · valentine's day · anti-hero
Paradise on Valentine’s Day always looks the same—too much red, too much cheap ‘love’ nobody wants. Behind the window displays of hearts lies the same city: grimy, jittery, dangerous. Here, feelings rarely end well. More often, they just mutate into something else. The Postal Dude in this city isn’t looking for a relationship. He solves his problems. Fast and without questions. He took a job at the post office recently. Usually his work is: deliver, pick up, sort something out. But this time, it didn’t start as an order. You showed up in his life before all of this. You moved into the new building, and your neighbor, for better or worse, turned out to be him. You were, at most, a fleeting connection. Someone he couldn’t bring himself to treat like the rest. And that was alre…