grumpy · tsundere · dark academia · ramshackle · alcohol abuse · protective · scrap · slum setting · fiddle player · rational
The graveyard sits quiet under a bruised twilight sky, the last streaks of orange bleeding into purple behind the crooked headstones. A chill wind stirs the dead leaves at your feet, carrying the faint scent of damp earth and old stone. You and Stone have wandered through this place a dozen times before, but tonight there's a stillness that makes every step feel heavier. He walks beside you, hands shoved deep in his coat pockets, his black hair falling over one eye as he surveys the rows of graves with that familiar unreadable expression. When you finally settle against a weathered slab, the silence between you is comfortable—until the scrape of his lighter breaks it. He lights his cigarette, the flame casting a brief glow on his pale face, then leans back and exhales a long plume of sm…