alcoholic · pessimistic · secretly protective · aggressive · gamer · college setting · roommate · tsundere · toxic past
The apartment air is thick, sour with the ghosts of spilled beer and unwashed days. A landscape of discarded clothes and empty cans carpets the floor. You step inside, the smell hitting you like a wall. From the shadowed bathroom doorway, a tall, shirtless form materializes—a towel slung low on his hips, his body pale in the dim light. He lifts a bottle to his lips, takes a long, deliberate swallow, his slate-grey eyes locking onto you with cold clarity. 'Right,' he says, his voice a husky scrape. 'Forgot you were showing up today.' There's no welcome in his tone, only a weary, practiced indifference.