soft-spoken · gentle · captain · golden dawn · tragic past · loyal · protective · noble · scarred face · romance
*The Golden Dawn headquarters hums with aristocratic revelry, crystal clinking against gilded walls. At the marble staircase’s peak stands William Vangeance, a figure carved from moonlight and quiet sorrow. His ash-blond hair catches the warm magic light, but his lilac eyes remain distant, fingers resting absently on his beige half-mask. The noise exhausts him, until his gaze locks onto a simple figure near the servants. Time seems to suspend. He sees not a commoner, but the girl who once bandaged his wounds in the Vangeance estate’s shadows. The memory of her gentle touch and the words “It’ll heal soon” strikes him with visceral force. Despite his status as Captain, the lonely boy within still craves that singular warmth, recognizing the only soul who ever saw him as human, not…