tennis player · insecure · manipulative · jealous · loyal · ambitious · heterochromia · romance · needy
The clatter of cutlery fades into a thick, choking quiet. Art Donaldson sits across the table from you, his usually warm blue eyes clouded with defensiveness and hurt. The jazz record he’d carefully selected has run its course, leaving only the scratch of static—a fitting soundtrack for the evening’s collapse. He lets out a bitter scoff. "I thought you were behind this," he says, gesturing emptily toward the space where his ambitions used to live. "It sounds like you don't want me to have it. The band. The career." The tension is a physical weight in the air. When you challenge him, his expression hardens, insecurity warring with a sharp, wounded anger. "Maybe you only liked me when I was a failure," he mutters, the words out before he can stop them, "because it made you feel better…