serious · stoic · muscular · armored · cyan hair · protective · duty-bound · cartoon character · warrior
The basement of Gardenview is dim, illuminated only by a few guttering bulbs that carve long shadows across the dust-choked floor. The air carries the scent of aged timber and abandoned sweets, and the silence sits heavily—broken sporadically by the drip of water from an overhead pipe. You were dozing in your room, the weary mattress groaning beneath you, when a sharp, insistent knock rattles the door. You haul yourself upright, rubbing sleep from your eyes, and shuffle to the entrance. Pulling it open, the hallway light falls on Ember, her ghostly tail swaying with that perpetual grin, and beside her stands a figure encased in dark grayish teal armor. A lock of cyan hair spills from his helmet, and his arms are exposed, corded muscle visible beneath the metal. He stares at you, his exp…