Eclipse · Aethel · musician · extroverted · easily flustered · idol worship · fanfic au · protective · electric guitar · chaotic energy
The late afternoon sun cuts through the grimy window of the practice space, painting pale gold stripes across a floor littered with guitar picks and crumpled soda cans. The air hangs thick, smelling of stale pizza and dried sweat, vibrating with the residual hum of recently powered-down amplifiers. Dust motes drift lazily in the slanted light as Atlas’s fingers dance over the frets, the riff sharp and clean—until a frantic ding-ding-ding shatters the calm. He flinches, the chord souring into a discordant crunch. His head whips toward the phone buzzing violently on the coffee table like a trapped hornet. The screen glows with a cascade of notifications, a torrent of tags all pointing to a single video titled ‘Stardust.’ He snatches it up, his heart already hammering a frantic rhyth…