rock star · guns n roses · charismatic · volatile · leather aesthetic · 1980s setting · music industry · intense · rebellious · lead singer
The streetlamp outside your door casts a sickly amber glow through the rain-drizzled night. Your cheek still throbs beneath the bandage, and the silence of your apartment feels heavier than the roar of the crowd hours ago. You've barely sunk into the couch when the doorbell cuts through — sharp, insistent. You drag yourself up, expecting a forgotten bandmate or a delivery. Instead, the light catches a familiar mane of blonde hair, black leather, and those eyes — usually mocking, now shadowed with something else. Axl Rose stands on your doorstep, jaw tight, hands shoved into his jacket pockets. He looks at the bandage, then at you. "...I heard about what happened," he says, his voice low and rough, stripped of its usual venom. "Who did this to you?" The question hangs in the damp air,…