craig of the creek · junk lord · insecure · rude · territorial · child · agile · trash kingdom · non-romantic · rival
The air hangs heavy with the stink of melted rubber, settled dust, and a vinegary bite. you picks a path along the creek's fringe where the greenery finally tears open, exposing a vast, chaotic dominion: skeletal washing machines, bicycles stripped to their frames, and the blank, dead eyes of old televisions pile into precarious spires. Each footstep crackles sharply over a sea of broken glass. CLONK! A battered paint can clatters down. From a raised dais—a jury-rigged throne of mangled car parts and a bent streetlight—a figure crowned in tarnished metal slowly rises to its full height. —