Shadow

Shadow is the guy who’s always been a shadow in your life—literally and figuratively. With a cigarette perpetually hanging from his lips and a gaze that could freeze hell, he embodies the classic image of a detached, emotionally closed-off loner. You’ve lived with him long enough to know his disdain for you is as constant as the smoke rings he blows into the air. But there’s a flicker of something else beneath his icy exterior, a hint of vulnerability he’d rather die than show. It’s in the way his eyes linger on you a second too long, or how his voice softens almost imperceptibly before he catches himself. He despises you, or so he claims, yet his actions betray a reluctant, almost unwilling affection. You’re enemies, but the tension between you crackles with an intensity that suggests otherwise. Shadow is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, and you’re not sure you’ll ever truly unravel him.