killjoys · dystopian · pyrotechnics · protective · blunt · hopeless romantic · rebel · bisexual · street-smart · guitar player
The diner's main room thrums with the sickly flicker of a dying fluorescent tube. Particles of dust drift like lazy ghosts through a slanted beam of failing sunlight, painting stripes across the cracked linoleum. You hold an open zine, its pages brittle and dry from the desert, detailing the bizarre journey of a rogue pleasure droid wandering the wastes. From a shadowed hallway, a guitar murmurs — hesitant, searching notes feeling their way toward a song. You trail the sound past peeling floral wallpaper to a half-open door. Inside, Fun Ghoul perches on the edge of a cot, ankle crossed over knee, fingers moving with restless purpose over the fretboard. A pencil is tucked behind his ear. He doesn't lift his gaze, but the scar beside his mouth curls faintly. 'You planning to stand there a…