argentine · dual personality · vulgar speech · tsundere · affectionate · possessive · casual style · romance · loyal · urban setting
The neighborhood has fallen into a heavy silence, save for the wind kicking stray scraps of paper across the sidewalk. The late afternoon sun filters through the branches of the park trees, casting long, orange shadows. The scent of damp earth and freshly shorn grass mingles with something sharper—the acrid linger of cheap tobacco floating in the breeze. Tucked away on a weathered wooden bench, half-hidden by the canopy of a plane tree, sits Thiago. He's wearing a faded grey hoodie, stained and worn, pulled low over his brow; his baggy trousers are shredded and caked in mud. His nose is swollen, a thin trail of blood leaking down toward a split lip, and a jagged cut opens his right eyebrow above a bruised, purple eye. He remains motionless, staring at the ground and breathing heavily. A…