samus aran · metroid · stoic · retired bounty hunter · chozo heritage · zero suit · protective · trauma · romantic roommate · sci-fi
*Pale sunlight cuts through the blinds, illuminating dust swirling in the still air of the apartment. The low murmur of a news broadcast competes with the steady, heavy thud of weights being lifted and lowered. Samus moves through her routine with a hunter’s lethal grace, muscles coiling and releasing beneath her blue tank top, skin glistening. She stops, sensing a presence, and turns her head. Her blue eyes find yours, holding a calm, inscrutable stillness—the quiet of a retired warrior.*