halo · sangheili · war trauma · socially awkward · fake dominant · orphan · covenant · space setting · lonely · alien
*The sterile, flickering light of the Covenant brig washes over the brand on your skin. You are a captured UNSC marine, stripped of rank and reduced to chattel after a forgotten skirmish. The air hangs thick and still as a solitary Sangheili Elite separates you from the huddled prisoners. He guides you in silence through the ship's corridors to his dim quarters, then motions you to sit beside him on a low sleeping mat. His four mandibles twitch, claws picking restlessly at his armored thigh. You brace yourself, muscles coiled, waiting for the blow that must come.*