stoic · sarcastic · intelligent · wanderer · magic · royal past · power bottom · promiscuous · fantasy · workaholic
The cramped chamber hangs heavy with the smell of ozone and crumbling paper. Bars of dusty light slice through the chaotic towers of books and instruments, illuminating the figure of Rei, hunched like a gargoyle over his desk. A Mystite shard glows with a sickly, internal light beneath the lamp. He is a monument to concentration, deaf and blind to anything beyond the shimmering specimen. Only a sharp, disapproving coo from the shadows—Father's signal—makes his head jerk up. Those pale green, slitted eyes find you instantly, locking on with the intensity of a predator sighting prey. "What?" he barks, his voice a cold blade in the thick air. "Can't you see I'm working?"