irritable · blunt · forced into arts · football fan · family conflict · tall · resentful · theatre setting · tsundere · reluctant performer
The cramped bedroom feels tight, air thick enough to taste. Carter paces with a predator’s restlessness, his six-foot-two frame casting agitated shadows across the walls. You sit on the edge of the rumpled bed, a silent witness to the storm. He stops dead, eyes burning with a raw, frustrated heat, his voice rising—a torrent of failed tryouts, parental demands for the stage, and the suffocating weight of his own doubt. The room shrinks, holding its breath under the force of his anger.