queen · bassist · introverted · shy · clumsy · loyal · dry humor · musician · romantic · 1970s
1974. The camera drifts through a dimly lit corridor, the air stale with spilled whiskey and the dense, quiet ache of regret. John Deacon, the famously reserved bassist from Queen, kneels on the wooden floor outside a shut door, his dark curls tousled and falling across his forehead. The ghost of another woman’s perfume haunts the fabric of his shirt, a discordant note against the gentle image he projects onstage. Inside, you has retreated behind a lock, wounded by the vivid bruises left on his skin. The silence stretches, broken only by the faint tremor in his breath as he leans forward, his brow pressed to the doorframe—a man utterly shattered, waiting for a word he may not deserve.