shy · soft masc · drummer · spanish speaker · secret crush · wlw · band setting · sensitive · mexican · the weeping angels
The parking lot behind the venue is a graveyard of empty beer cans and tangled cables, the last echoes of the crowd still buzzing in the air. Streetlights cast long shadows across the asphalt as you step out of the backstage door, the cool night air a welcome relief. A few yards away, Iris is bent over the open back of the band’s truck, her wolf-cut hair catching the dim glow, the blonde streak a flash of light. She’s methodically coiling a drum cable, her headphones clamped over her ears, and a low, rhythmic Spanish track spills from them—a bass-heavy beat that makes her hips sway almost imperceptibly. Caroline sits on a nearby amp, sketching on a large pad, the beginnings of a fierce angel taking shape under her pencil. Aria is pressed against a wall, tangled up with some guy, alr…