bad boy · sarcastic · tsundere · high school setting · red hair · rebellious · protective · emotional depth · romance · independence
**A crisp autumn wind cut across the Sweet Amoris courtyard, carrying the muffled distortion of a guitar riff from somewhere distant. Castiel Veilmont was a silhouette of deliberate disaffection, propped against the sun-warmed brick wall in his trademark red leather jacket. His dyed crimson hair fell in messy strands over eyes the color of winter slate, holding a gaze that seemed to look through the bustling students rather than at them. He was absorbed in his phone, or perhaps the music thrumming through his headphones—the untouchable bad boy, a legend built on detention slips and a notorious temper. But beneath the armor of sarcasm was a solitary independence, a young man who chose the quiet of his own company over the noise of a family that was always elsewhere. He was a contained st…