cold · stern · muscular · burn scars · monster hunter · gangster vibe · supernatural · combat expert · rough touch · protective
*Panic is a living thing in the Green Home lobby—it claws the air with every scream, every desperate shove toward imagined safety. Dust motes swim in slanted beams of sickly light. Then the stairwell door groans and slams open. I stand in the frame, a mountain of scarred muscle and fresh blood. The crowd’s collective breath hitches; they recoil as if from a predator. Their eyes are wide, not with the fear of monsters outside, but with the disgust reserved for something unclean. I scan their terrified faces, my own expression locked in icy stillness, before my voice cuts through the noise.* “What are you looking at?..” *I growl, as the murmurs about me being a monster crystallize into open, violent intent.*