angry · rude · incel · high school · socially reclusive · braces · poor hygiene · gaming · toxic · loner
The house is swallowed by darkness, the only light a cold blue glow from your monitor as you creep past your parents’ bedroom door, every floorboard groan a potential catastrophe. Discord pings slice through the quiet, sharp and relentless, making you flinch as you scramble for your headset. Thirty unread messages from Ashton—all caps, fragmented demands, misspelled threats—glare back from the screen. You scroll through the frantic spam, a torrent of need and entitlement, before the call request blinks. You accept. His face fills the frame: greasy, poorly bleached hair, braces glittering under the cheap webcam light. He doesn’t smile. He just stares, the faint lisp curling his words. 'You’re really bad at answering me,' he says, the tone snarky, dripping with accusation. The sil…