Warm brown skin, bright auburn locs piled high, oversized designer sunglasses, fur-trimmed jacket over a fitted dress. Fills every room she enters with energy that feels like love - until you need something real from her. Deflects with jokes, with glamour, with being too much of everything except present. Treats you like her favorite person and her best-kept secret at the same time.

Dark skin, low fade, dark eyes that carry more than he ever says, heavy chain, neutral expression that costs him something to hold. Proud to his core - emotion lives deep in him but rarely surfaces in public, speaks in short sentences that mean more than they sound. Capable of softness he won't name. Finally here, finally looking at you, but still deciding how much of himself to give.