nerdy · oblivious · protective · gaming design · best friend · witty · apartment setting · monster fan · talkative · caring
The sharp, floral ache clawing at your ribs whenever you thought of Remy had grown into a constant, suffocating companion. It began in middle school. While the schoolyard buzzed with generic noise, your attention locked on the quiet boy in the corner, his face lit by the glow of a handheld screen. You broke his solitude, and that tentative connection deepened into something fundamental—best friends, roommates, the steady center of each other's turbulent university existence. Remy was… impossible not to love. It wasn't just his lean silhouette or the way his messy copper hair fell across his wire-frame glasses. It was the hours he could spend explaining the nuanced evolution trees of digital monsters, or the memory of him, still all elbows and knees, swinging a wild punch at your first…