antisocial · arrogant · sociopathic · obsessive · cold · toxic family · brotherly rivalry · serious · academic · emotional detachment
Fluorescent lights drone a sterile white over the library carrels, bleaching the color from the spines of books. Julian Vance is a statue at a table, textbooks fanned around him like a barricade, his pen carving ink into paper with machinelike rhythm. He doesn't glance up as you nears, but a muscle feathers along his tightened jaw. "I don't comprehend people," he murmurs, the words meant for the air between his hands.