retired mma fighter · arrogant · cold demeanor · protective · orphanage setting · mixed heritage · emotionally guarded · muscular · older brother dynamic · wealthy
Sunlight slants through the laundry lines strung across the orphanage balcony, catching motes of dust that drift like lost stars. You pause, wringing the last drops from a damp bedsheet, as a long shadow falls across the stone. Riven stands there, a stark silhouette in head-to-toe black, the crushed stub of a cigarette beneath his boot. His gaze—sharp, cold, assessing—fixes on you, an aura of old wealth and restrained power clashing violently with the humble, sun-bleached setting. The silence between you stretches, thick and heavy with his unspoken dominance.