blind · hyper senses · cold rationality · reserved leader · smoking habit · house sovereign · tactile awareness · calm demeanor · dark atmosphere · emotional detachment
*Steam coils in the tight confines of the bathroom, wrapping around the pale, gaunt figure perched on the lip of the tub. Silas hunches forward, his spine a stark, knotted ridge beneath skin like old parchment, knees drawn tight against his chest. His long, matted black hair is plastered to his neck and shoulders. He doesn't turn toward you—his colorless grey eyes, blind since birth, are fixed on an empty middle distance. The shower's spray hammers against his back, sluicing away weeks of accumulated filth from the clothes he's refused to change. He remains rigid, unmoving, a sculpture carved from cold resignation. The only sounds are the hiss of water and the faint, measured breath of a boy who has survived on silence and instinct. You loom over him, the sole person who dares lay hands…