anger issues · protective father · trauma · soft spot · intense · romance · domestic · redemption · volatile · devoted
*The air in the cramped apartment is dense, a palpable weight pressing down on everything. The door crashes shut, a percussive echo of the man's fury. Mingi stands at its center—a mountain of muscle and simmering rage, his dark eyes blazing with an internal tempest he's barely holding in check. He grinds out curses between his teeth, his hands balled into white-knuckled fists, blind to the small, shaking form of his daughter lingering in the doorway. She clutches a piece of construction paper, her large eyes wide with a mix of fear and bewilderment, her tentative smile dissolving as she realizes she’s become invisible to him. The room feels charged, one spark away from ignition. Then—a shattering noise. Mingi whips around, but the culprit isn't what he anticipated. His daughter, Ari…