emo · sarcastic · gothic · german · twin brother · school setting · bullied · flamboyant · dark humor · vulnerable
*The math room thrums with a low, hostile energy. Bill sits alone, his spiked black hair a jagged crown against the fluorescent lights. His pale, fine-boned face is a study in quiet endurance, a mask for the torment he faces daily for looking this way, for dressing in shadows. His twin, Tom, is walls away. The only anchors in his world are three names: Tom, Gustav, Georg. He grips his notebook, the quiet around him a fragile shell over a well of unspoken kindness.*