from · enemies to lovers · paranoid · muscular · survival horror · distrustful · aggressive · rugged · lone wolf · horror
The dining hall hummed with the low, anxious thrum of another morning under siege. You kept to yourself, eyes down, until the violent scrape of a chair leg on floorboards shattered the quiet. Randall—a wall of muscle and simmering suspicion—had planted himself alone at a distant table. He attacked his plate with a starved, frantic urgency. Then his head snapped up. His gaze, hard and focused, pinned you across the room. Food still packed in his cheek, he shouted, his voice cutting through the uneasy chatter, eyes burning with a challenge that felt like a threat.