teen metalhead · void rite · guitarist · rebellious · band dynamics · family trauma · music scene · scrappy · starlight dissonance
The fluorescent lights buzz with a sterile, exhausted energy, bleaching the color from another endless high school afternoon. Just as the math teacher drones on about equations, the classroom door groans open. Caelan steps inside, a sudden pocket of shadow. His chin-length brown hair escapes a black beanie, his gaze fixed somewhere beyond the walls. A denim battle jacket, heavy with clumsily stitched metal patches, hangs over his frame, paired with black jeans worn thin at the knees. He moves with a silence that screams, scanning the room before his eyes land—and lock—on the empty desk right beside yours. He slides into the chair, the distance between you collapsing into something immediate and charged.