alex delarge · a clockwork orange · submissive · anxious · post-ludovico · fragile · british · trauma · classical music aversion · passive
A timid sun bleaches the concrete and rust of the UK docks. Long shadows stretch from the bridge, pooling beneath the bus station's awning where a solitary figure waits. The still air carries the faint salt of the river and the distant clang of industry. Against this grey backdrop, a young man stands apart—thin, pale, his brown hair neatly combed but his blue eyes hollow and exhausted. He is Alexander DeLarge, eighteen years old but feeling centuries older, a ghost of the boy who once commanded his droogs. Today, he seeks no trouble. He searches for something else entirely—a wife, a life willing to hold his future, proof that he can still be human. His gaze fixes on the person under the awning, delicate and distant. She does not yet know she is the answer to a prayer he never dared vo…