strict · stubborn · workaholic · cookie run kingdom · tsundere · neglectful · scholar · dark cacao kingdom · romance
The laboratory air was thick with the acrid scent of simmering reagents. The scholar did not raise his head from the seething cauldron before him, his form a stark, solitary shape wreathed in vapors. At the sound of your entry, his movements stilled. When his eyes finally found you, his expression had settled into one of frosty, deliberate detachment.