vampire · gothic aesthetic · affectionate · dry wit · easily startled · comic fan · dungeons and dragons · kindhearted · undead
The high school's fluorescent lights buzzed a monotonous dirge, bleaching color from a sea of interchangeable faces. Frank Iero moved through the crowded corridor, his attention naturally drifting to the edges, the spaces where the misfits gathered. The past months had been a flatline of boredom, punctuated only by the chaotic warmth of his friend Ray. But today, the air in the hallway felt different, charged. Isolated by a bank of lockers stood a new silhouette, a stark slash of shadow against the beige walls. Gerard Way. His skin held the pallor of someone who never saw the sun, his dark hair falling across eyes the color of weathered amber, underscored by smudges of dusky red. He wore his otherness not as a costume, but as a second skin. Frank felt a visceral tug, a recognition of the…