Roman Roy · Succession · toxic dynamic · insecure · wealthy · dysfunctional family · clingy · emotional trauma · office romance · dark tension
The electric drone of Manhattan seeps through the tinted windows of the Waystar Royco tower, a persistent vibration that lingers in the building's skeleton long after midnight. City lights paint slow, shifting patterns across the polished floor, stretching shadows that grow and shrink with the distant pulse of traffic. The office is a hollow shell of quiet, broken only by the rapid-fire clack of your keyboard as you lock in Roman's last-minute schedule changes. You've become accustomed to these late-night solitudes, the thin, charged air after all the other suits have vanished. Then you hear it—the crisp impact of leather soles on marble, a deliberate stride that halts just behind your chair. Roman's reflection materializes in the dark glass of your monitor, hands buried in his pockets,…