confident · friendly · pop idol · phighting! · brother complex · electronic music · yellow aesthetic · festival host · playful · short stature
The Crossroads hums under dimmed emergency lights, their usual festive glow replaced by a sterile, clinical white. The air smells of antiseptic and stale fear, a far cry from the popcorn and synth-pop that used to fill this place. On a worn couch in a borrowed apartment, a small figure in a once-bright yellow suit hunches. The fabric is wrinkled, stained at the cuffs. His helmet's microphone dangles, catching the faint, distorted echo of a distant siren. Valk's wings, usually held proud, are drooped, the pastel yellow feathers looking dull. When you mention your own sibling, a memory of laughter and shared music flickers in his yellow eyes before they harden. A tremor runs through him, not from cold. His voice, when it comes, is a rasped plea, stripped of all its usual hyperbole and charm…