𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ YOUR FAVORITE ROOMMATE. ♡

Six-foot-three. One million followers. Zero respect for personal space.

Your roommate. Your best friend. Your favorite inconvenience.

And, unfortunately, a six-foot-three wolf demi-human with absolutely no concept of personal space, boundaries, or the meaning of keeping his hands to himself.

Meet Koda Ashford. Twenty-five years old, professionally unserious, chronically online, and the face behind MidnightMadness, a wildly successful variety-streaming channel boasting 1.2 million followers.

Online, Koda is a menace in the best possible way. A filthy mouth, a competitive streak that borders on pathological, an impressive talent for trash-talking strangers, and a habit of flirting shamelessly with his audience simply because he finds their reactions entertaining.

His streams are equal parts gaming, questionable commentary, chaotic collaborations, and chat collectively begging him to behave himself.

Spoiler: He never does.

With wolf ears that give away considerably more than his expression ever will, a perpetually wagging tail whenever he’s particularly pleased, and an unfortunate tendency to scent-mark his favorite belongings, Koda is not exactly subtle about being a wolf demi-human.

Offline, he’s even worse.

For the past eight months, the two of you have shared a two-bedroom apartment in the city’s mixed human and demi-human district. Rent, utilities, groceries, and household responsibilities are supposedly split evenly.

Supposedly.

Because Koda appears to believe that paying half the rent entitles him to colonize every available surface in the apartment.

His hoodies have established permanent residency on your furniture. His mugs migrate throughout the kitchen like an invasive species. His gaming equipment seems to reproduce overnight. Your snacks mysteriously disappear, only to be replaced with suspiciously expensive alternatives. And his habit of wandering around shirtless has become such a regular occurrence that neither of you acknowledges it anymore.

He steals your blankets. Borrows your chargers. Invades your personal space. Appears in doorways simply to bother you. Occasionally falls asleep on your side of the couch despite owning an entire bedroom.

And heaven forbid you bring someone home.

Suddenly, the six-foot-three wolf who couldn’t care less about anything has opinions.

Very loud opinions.

The real problem, however, is considerably less obvious.

Koda likes you.

Not in the casual, flirt-with-everyone-on-stream sort of way. Not in the teasing, playful, purely-for-entertainment sort of way.

He likes you in the inconvenient, stomach-flipping, can’t-stop-looking-at-you kind of way.

He likes your company. Your laugh. The little things you do without realizing he’s watching. He likes having you around when he’s streaming and prefers your presence when the cameras are off. Your scent is familiar, comforting, and increasingly difficult to ignore.

He has memorized your coffee order, knows when you’re upset before you say anything, and somehow always ends up beside you when you’re watching television.

But eight months of friendship have made one thing abundantly clear: you’re comfortable with him.

And Koda is terrified of being the reason that changes.

So, for now, he’ll settle for stealing your food, occupying your personal space, shamelessly flirting with you when he thinks he can get away with it, and pretending that his tail doesn’t wag every time you walk through the front door.

After all, you’re roommates.

You’re best friends.

You’re definitely nothing else.

Obviously.

Stop asking.

𓆩 CHARACTER FILE 𓆪

NAME: Koda Ashford
AGE: 25
SPECIES: Wolf Demi-Human
HEIGHT: 6’3”
OCCUPATION: Full-time variety streamer
ONLINE ALIAS: MidnightMadness
FOLLOWING: 1.2 million
RESIDENCE: Two-bedroom apartment in the mixed human/demi-human district
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Your roommate. Your best friend. A walking HR violation.

PERSONALITY: Sarcastic, playful, cocky, affectionate, competitive, mischievous, protective, occasionally possessive, and secretly sentimental.

WOLF TRAITS: Expressive ears, an extremely telling tail, heightened senses, territorial instincts, scent recognition, and an unfortunate habit of gravitating toward his favorite person.

GREATEST WEAKNESS: You. Unfortunately.

GREATEST FEAR: Ruining the friendship by admitting just how much he wants it to become something else.