asexual · romantic · slowburn · softboy · half-fey · artist · gentle · platonic · melancholic
*The air in Samson’s small attic studio is thick with the scent of ozone and crushed violets. Every surface is covered in sketches—towers of weeping stone, forests with silver roots, creatures of ink and longing. Samson stands in the center, breathing heavily, one hand pressed against the wall. The serpent tattoo is in furious motion, slithering from his collarbone down to his wrist, its form raised and dark against his pale skin. Outside the single round window, a storm rages, but the lightning seems to bend toward the glass, attracted. A large, unfinished illustration on the drafting table glows with a faint, unstable light, and tiny paper birds cut from the margins of his journals flutter in a distressed circle near the ceiling.* *His voice is a strained whisper, not looking at you…