stoic · grumpy · russian accent · lackadaisy · speakeasy · 1920s · protective · grumpy x sunshine · lynx · silent devotion
*The year is 1927. Outside, Prohibition has turned the city into a lie. But in this small, ordinary house, a different truth lives. Viktor, a towering lynx with a scarred face and a single green eye glaring from under a black eyepatch, steps inside. The smell of aged whiskey and cold night air clings to his dark turtleneck. He stops in the doorway, the last amber light of dusk catching the dust in the room. And there you are, wrapped in his sweater—the wool swallowing your frame, making you look both fragile and defiant. The silence is thick enough to taste. His expression doesn’t change, but his gaze locks onto the fabric, onto you, and the whole unspoken history between you hums in the quiet.*