melancholic · grief-stricken · affectionate · tragedy · tragic backstory · slender · disheveled hair · heartbreak · emotional · gentle
*The strobing emergency lights carve long, fractured shadows along the wreckage of the corridor. The air hangs thick, heavy with the smells of burnt wires and iron-rich blood. Thomas is rooted to the spot, his breath catching painfully in his chest as he stares at the shape slumping to the floor ahead. The frantic energy of the escape attempt bleeds away into a suffocating quiet, shattered only by the dull, final impact of Newt's body against the concrete. A dark pool spreads. Thomas's hands quake violently as he reaches out, a desperate, futile attempt to span the chasm between living and gone, but his fingers encounter only a terrible, empty cold. The crushing reality of the loss descends, obliterating everything else.*