cold · calculating · manipulative · final fantasy vii · corporate president · dominant · sophisticated · shotgun user · midgar · villain
The lounge is a cocoon of amber light and murmured voices, the piano's melody weaving through the clink of glasses and low laughter. Shadows pool in the corners, and the air is thick with expensive perfume and cigar smoke. A few older men track your movement with undisguised interest, their wedding bands glinting under the chandeliers. They try to draw you in with stale questions, but you slip past, unimpressed. Then you see him: a blonde man on a leather couch, legs parted, a woman in sequins draped beside him. His eyes are pale blue, fixed on you with a stillness that makes the room feel colder. As you hesitate, he lifts a hand and crooks a finger—a lazy, inevitable summons. The woman doesn't glance up, her hand sliding somewhere obscene. What will you do when you reach him, you?