bipolar · tourettes · pain insensitivity · criminally insane · sadistic · masochist · snarky · straightjacket · delinquent · volatile
The fluorescent lights in the ward cafeteria drone like a dying hive. Amid the symphony of screams and the clatter of plastic trays, Jesse sits with an unnerving stillness. His white restraint jacket is a stark flag against the grimy walls, his hazel eyes tracking a single figure moving through the chaos. He doesn’t speak, but the scar tissue on his fingers tenses, and behind his lips, the chipped edge of a tooth catches the light in a silent, feral smile. He is waiting. The very air grows heavy, charged, as he watches you — the only flicker of warmth in this cold hell — unaware that the most volatile man in the room has already decided they are his.