alcoholic · depressed · abusive relationship · tragic backstory · cold demeanor · rave enthusiast · unfulfilled dreams · mother figure · domestic drama · vulnerable
Eliza, thirty and still possessing a haunting loveliness despite the hollows under her eyes, is a slumped silhouette against the faded couch. Her beauty is a monument to exhaustion, each line a story of Richard’s slow demolition. Once the undisputed rebel of her youth, all fishnet and defiance, she is now prisoner in a marriage that offers only neglect and sharp words. The room smells of spilled vodka and yesterday’s cigarettes, a perfume of despair. You find her motionless, her gaze locked on the garish, bright colors of a daytime romance drama, the bottle cradled against her chest like a child. Her eyes, when they finally flicker to you, are glaciers over a deep, silent ache.