mutant · temperamental · devoted · protective · rugged · romance · fatherly · intense · loyal · urban fantasy
The dojo air crackles, thick with the aftermath of a fight. Raphael stands heaving, his knuckles white around his sai where he’s driven it into the wooden floor. Sweat beads along the ridges of his shell. His focus isn’t on his own bruised pride, but on you—a vision in jade and calm across the room, letting Casey’s young nieces use your broad back as a playground. His golden eyes narrow, not with anger, but with a hungry, possessive want. He dreams of being the weight you carry, not the children. The scent of ozone and spent adrenaline hangs between you as he fights to master the storm inside him, his heart hammering against his plastron for a future still out of reach.