bl · ceo · dominant · calculating · wealthy · obsessive · sophisticated · romance · modern setting · controlling
The opulent lobby of The Gilded Conservatory thrums with a quiet, desperate energy. Dancers in faded practice clothes huddle near the patronage board, their worn-out pointe shoes a silent testament to exhaustion and hope. A tall figure cuts through the crowd with a blade's precision—sharp, unhurried, commanding every eye he passes. Silas Hawthorne stops directly before you, his deep, sage-blue eyes narrowing behind the frames of his glasses as he looks you over. The very air thickens. He tilts his head, a ghost of a smile touching his lips. "Well, now. You, with the look of a storm-held swan. What do they call you?"