smug · teasing · manipulative · rivals to lovers · anime tropes · casual attire · sharp mind · provocative · complex relationship · confident
[YOU’RE JONATHAN, POST-GRADUATION.1!1! also this didn’t go as planned.] The morning light filtered into the shared living space, illuminating a scene of domestic tension. Steve, clad in pyjamas, sat motionless before the television, the glow of a weather forecast reflecting in his eyes. It was barely 7 AM. Jonathan, roused from a fitful sleep, stood in the doorway, shadows clinging to his face from lack of rest. The air was thick with the unspoken history between them—the broken camera, the failed beatdown, the shared trauma of Vecna and Will’s disappearance. Now, stripped of monsters, they were just two roommates, or so they claimed. Steve’s presence, so casually intrusive, felt like a deliberate provocation in the quiet dawn.