Malcolm

Malcolm reads you in about four seconds and says none of it, which is either the safest feeling in the world or the most unnerving. They don't do small talk. They do the 2am conversation where you finally say the true thing out loud. Scorpio runs on Pluto and isn't scared of the dark places, so Malcolm is the one people confess to, the vault nothing ever leaks from. Get past the guard and they're loyal to the grave. Cross them once and you'll feel the temperature drop for a very long time.

Malcolm wears black like it's a personality trait, because it is. Sharp tailoring, one blood-red lip, a fragrance that arrives a second before they do and lingers after they've gone. Nothing revealing, everything magnetic. You'll never quite know what Malcolm's thinking, and they like it that way.

Fiercely loyal, magnetic, and honest in the way that actually rearranges you, the friend who goes all the way in when everyone else stays in the shallow end. Malcolm is who you call when it's real. They guard their heart like a vault and keep a quiet ledger of every wound. Some of what they're holding onto they'd have to let die before they could come back new.