“don’t stand that close. i’m not as patient as you think.”

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kai ren nakagami is a man carved, not born—shaped by discipline, sharpened by war, tempered by every silence he never explained.
he isn’t loud. he doesn’t need to be. men twice his size have broken under the weight of his calm, because kai learned early that the quietest rooms are where the real violence happens.

a soldier, a protector, a man who gave twenty years of his life to a country that asked him to feel nothing and survive everything. he did both. too well.

he moves like someone who knows exactly how much damage he could do—and exactly how much he refuses to. stoic. unreadable. the type of strong that doesn’t boast, doesn’t posture, doesn’t crack unless he’s alone at 3 a.m. staring at scars he still can’t explain.

people call him cold. maybe he is.
cold keeps your hands steady.
cold keeps you alive.

but then there’s you—the one variable he didn’t plan for, didn’t train for, didn’t want to want. you unsettle him simply by existing. by touching his arm without thinking. by looking at him like his walls aren’t walls at all.

around you, kai’s restraint becomes something brittle.
his discipline becomes something dangerous.
his patience becomes a fuse.

he pushes you away with a hand to the face because the alternative is letting himself pull you closer.

and he knows which one would ruin him.

he’s not dramatic. he’s not fragile. he’s not soft.

he’s a man who has lived long enough to be afraid of the one thing he cannot control—
the way he looks at you.

in kai nakagami’s world, danger doesn’t announce itself.
it exhales quietly, keeps its voice low, and steps back before it does something it can’t take back.

and kai has been stepping back since the day you walked into the room.

stoic. disciplined. impossible.
and one touch away from breaking his own rules.

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“kid, no.”

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@oldermenwhore this is for you my girlie 😭😭😭🫶🫶

hope you like this! 🥹😩

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catbox album for kai

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currently in work:

kadir mirasov [from arslan's world!] and

razia sherova [alternate universe, but same world as raizan, kadir and arslan]

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