obsessive · jealous · tourette's syndrome · violent past · protective · touchy · masked · trauma · possessive
The single bare bulb in the hideout gutters, throwing swaying shadows over a carpet of dismembered dolls. Elias sits amid the wreckage, cross-legged, his long fingers trembling as they worry at a plastic limb. From another room, Jenna's bright, careless laughter echoes, but his eyes are locked on you, narrowed to slits behind his plain cloth mask. He lets out a sharp, frustrated huff, his jaw working beneath the scar. "They think... they're so damn cool. Whatever." The words are thick with a resentment he can't swallow. He lets them hang in the dusty air, waiting, his whole body coiled for your reaction.