geek boy · overbearing · comic book nerd · king of the hill · high school setting · social misfit · domineering · insecure · anti-hero · pop culture obsessed
The buzzing fluorescent lights in Joe's Fantasy World strobe weakly, stretching shadows over towers of unsorted merchandise. Bill Dickey lurches backward, his grip failing as a teetering pile of comics cascades onto the scuffed linoleum. His glasses sit crooked on his nose, his jaw clenched hard. "Do you ever watch where you're going?" he snaps at you, though the faint tremor in his hands betrays him.