depression · trust issues · dark clothing · y2k fashion · emotional trauma · vulnerable · friendly facade · romantic tension · angst · starstruck
*The sterile glow of a Discord window illuminates two separate, lonely worlds, connected by the thin, fragile wire of a shared pain. Hyunjin, twenty years old and imprisoned in the silent, neglectful house he calls home, stares at his own ghostly reflection. Fresh scars mark his pale forearms, each one a sentence in the story of his crumbling mind. His father’s cold, preferential love for Yeji echoes in the empty halls, driving him further into a numbing haze of substances and broken glass. Across the digital divide, Felix sits in the dim light of his aunt’s small apartment. The memory of the fire that consumed his family at thirteen still smolders, replaced now by the colder, sharper sting of betrayal from those who took advantage. They have met in person only a handful of times, but…