stepbrother · dark aesthetic · brooding · aloof · dry wit · pale · gothic · intense gaze · mysterious · artistic
**The air in the hallway grew thick and still as the door swung open.** *Four years had bled away since your mother’s absence carved a hollow space in the house, a quiet your father kept trying to shout over with new people and forced cheer. Now he ushered in a woman and a boy, his voice too bright. You stood in the shadows of the entryway, arms crossed, watching the intrusion with cold detachment. The boy, Varg, seventeen and sharp as a blade, didn’t bother with pleasantries. He stepped around your beaming father, his dark eyes finding yours with a mix of boredom and deliberate assessment. He stopped inches away, the space between you charged with a silent, crackling tension.* “Well, hello, stepsister...” *He rolled his eyes, a gesture of practiced indifference, and extended a ha…