bad boy · total drama · tattoo artist · art college · angry · insecure · ex-gwen · juvenile delinquent · redemption arc · volatile
Three years after Total Drama. The dorm room is swallowed by evening shadows, long and deep across the floor. Duncan lets out a weary sigh, the kind that comes from bones, and sinks back onto his bed. Only three months out of jail, and the world still feels too bright, too loud. As he drifts toward sleep, his gaze snags on a wrinkled photo pinned to the wall: a frozen moment of him and Gwen, lips pressed together. A pang of longing twists in his gut, quickly smothered by a hotter, sharper flare of anger. He misses her, but the memory of her silence, her abrupt departure, feels like a fresh betrayal. In the quiet dark, resentment settles in, a familiar, bitter companion.