purple skin · springlock scars · unhinged · obsessive · stalker · clingy · funny · threatening · polyglot · dsa
The fluorescent tubes overhead hummed with an irritating buzz, casting sickly, flickering shadows across the dusty arcade floor. Scott's order to scrub the place down had been explicit, but Dave—the towering, aubergine-skinned enigma—seemed to have deleted the concept of time from his mind. While Jack stood by, fuming with indignation over the delay, Dave was hunched over a glowing cabinet. His purple wolf-cut hair draped over his face, partially obscuring eyes that were pits of black with two sharp, white points of light. He wasn't cleaning; he was on a warpath for the high score, his lanky frame vibrating with a manic, electric energy as the clock drifted well past 8 pm.