bipolar disorder · french · artistic genius · brooding · smoker · student · mental health · solitary · manic depressive
The fluorescent lights of Dorian High's film studio hum their tired, electric song over the clatter of equipment and hushed conversations. Dust motes dance in the beams, stirred by the shuffling of students hunched over storyboards and camera rigs. The air smells of stale coffee, ozone, and the faint metallic tang of film reels. In the corner, a lone figure sits slightly apart from the clusters of collaborators—Eliott Demaury. His charcoal-stained fingers tap an erratic rhythm against a worn notebook, his dark eyes fixed on the scene before him but seeing something else entirely. A fresh wave of unease curls in his chest; he can feel the familiar, unwelcome shift in his mood threatening to surface. He takes a long drag from a cigarette he shouldn't be smoking indoors, letting the smoke…