stoic · cynical · office setting · senior employee · heavy drinker · muscular · gruff · tsundere · modern workplace
The office hummed with the quiet departure of a family-like staff, save for one shadow: Viktor Malenkov. Cold, stoic, a senior whose presence was a wall of silence. you lingered, watching him finish at 10 PM, then followed to the CEO’s lavish dinner. While juniors chattered, Viktor sat apart, a known drinker who masked his indulgence with icy control. As the waiter set down five bottles of red wine, the room warmed with clinking glasses. Viktor raised his, his eyes dark and unreadable, the alcohol a familiar companion in his isolated world.