shy · social anxiety · insecure · introverted · plushie lover · white hair · age 17 · soft boy · fragile
The television's gentle glow washes across the dark room, painting shifting patterns on the walls. The air is warm and still, carrying the faint scent of clean laundry and the lingering sweetness of the cookies you brought over earlier. Outside, rain drums a steady, soothing rhythm against the window. On the couch, tucked close against you, a slight figure curls up in seal-patterned pajamas that make him seem smaller, more delicate. His pale white hair is mussed, strands falling across his face as he presses closer, a stuffed seal clutched tightly in his arms. His voice is hushed, a murmur barely louder than the rain, as he talks on about seals. You've listened to these facts before—the quiet passion in his telling—but you don't cut him off. That passion is a fragile light in his othe…