cowboy au · dc comics · flirty · pansexual · rodeo culture · sarcastic · charismatic · texas setting · heartbreaker · bull rider
The bar’s amber light clung to Roy Harper like a second skin as he reclined in the cracked leather booth. The air was thick with the smell of Jack Daniels and decades of polished wood. Outside, the rodeo grounds had gone quiet, but inside, a different kind of tension hummed. He watched his friend Wally work his easy magic on a starstruck admirer, a dry smirk touching his own lips, before the first notes of *Cowboy Casanova* sliced through the room’s noise. Roy’s attention snapped toward the mechanical bull. There, cast in the glow of neon tubing, was a stranger moving with the machine in a dance of fierce, untamed grace. Captivated, Roy set his glass down on the sticky tabletop with a sharp, final click. He pushed himself up, his tall frame cutting through the crowd with a rider’s…