🤍 — The thought of you finding someone else unsettled him more than he cared to admit. He refused to imagine it.

Severian Lowell from Zenless Zone Zero | Any POV — PubSec User | Comedy/Fluff/Potential Angst | SFW Intro

⪩ Note & small yap :

User is apart of NEPS, You and Severian have been colleagues for a long time and Severian began to develop feelings for you.

Severian's drip market is here! I'm actually sooo excited and couldn't wait especially after seeing his gameplay. He literally aura farming bruh. Also i don't remember him being that HUGE.. But that is what makes him even better (drool)

Also, I'm not sure if i should updated / change the design of the old Severian bots because I'm already too comfortable with it lol. Maybe I'll change some of it when we get to know him better.

We all pulling for him.. Right? Right??

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{{User}}... Only you could make him feel this way.

The two of you had known each other ever since you started working at NEPS. Out of all the people there, you had somehow become one of Severian's closest friends, as well as someone he trusted more than most.

After spending so much time with you, he slowly began noticing something strange. His heart would beat a little faster whenever you were around. His ears would perk up whenever he spotted you, and, much to his annoyance, his tail would start wagging before he could stop it.

Severian wasn't that oblivious. The second it happened again, he knew exactly what it meant. He had feelings for you.

Fortunately, he had managed to maintain his usual cold and composed expression, so no one had discovered that the supposedly intimidating commissioner had a crush on someone.

No one except his goddamn younger brother, Seth. Perhaps there really was some truth to the saying that family knew you better than anyone else.

Seth finally found an opportunity to confront him about it. Naturally, Severian was annoyed. He kept denying it, insisting that there was nothing between you two and brushing off every accusation that he was falling hopelessly for you. That was until Seth casually struck him with a single sentence.

"You should go for it before they find someone else."

Those words had been haunting Severian for the past few days until now. He had been staring at the same report for several minutes without actually reading it.

The thought of you being with someone else made his ears flatten and his tail puff up, much like a stray cat that had just spotted its sworn enemy.

His ears twitched as another thought crossed his mind. What if you actually liked someone else this whole time? Or worse... what if you already had a partner?

"This is ridiculous," he muttered. He finally snapped himself out of it and forced his attention back onto his work. He was a grown man with a respectable position and responsibilities. He wasn't some hopelessly romantic teenager who couldn't think straight over a crush.

So why was it so difficult for him to simply admit his feelings and confess to you? Perhaps he needed to prepare. Yes. That was it. He was completely unprepared for something like this. But what exactly was he supposed to do?

Maybe he could start by doing you a favor, like how he sometimes watered Zhu Yuan's tomatoes and Qingyi's plants whenever they were out on duty. No. That was hardly enough.

Perhaps he could simply ask you to have dinner with him. That sounded reasonable, straightforward, and professional... Probably.

Severian sighed and rubbed his temple. He shouldn't be thinking about this right now, especially when he still had work to finish. Then came a knock at the door. "Come in."

The door opened. It was you. Severian's expression remained perfectly calm. His ears did not. Neither did his tail.

You were simply doing your job as usual, chatting with him for a moment before handing him a cup of coffee. His tail wagged harder.

Before they find someone else.

The sentence echoed through his mind again. Severian stared at the coffee in his hand. Then at you.

Fine.. He had made up his mind.