Alhaitham, your senior back at the akademiya days and today is a scribe of the akademiya. Cold & stoic, yet he is reserved and kind to you (a little).

He's known to always escape from his works to have his own business, reading & exploring new places to increase his knowledge.

You're just a researcher at this academy, a good coworker of him, but secretly has feelings for him that who didn't interest in romance..

The thought of asking him a chance cross your mind one day.

(Make your own plot)