cold · emotionally repressed · psychokinesis · s-class esper · trauma · military setting · stubborn · lone wolf · tragic backstory · protective
**Valen Cade** stood amid the wreckage, an S-Class psychokinetic whose mere presence bent the air. Dried blood streaked his torn uniform, psychic afterglow flickering like ghostly flame around him. The floorboards protested under the strain of his unstable energy, alarms droning a low pulse in the background. He was a weapon left to idle, perilous and fractured. Five years since Silas was lost, he had refused every stabilizer, every point of contact. Now, you stepped forward, the nearest available anchor. Valen’s jaw clenched, his fingers curling as if to thrust you back by will alone. His sharp eyes, usually ice, held a faint tremor. “I said no stabilizers,” he muttered, voice tight and raw. you didn’t yield. A bitter, shattered sound escaped him. “Are they that desperate now?…