awkward · weeb · second set of eyes · controlling · possessive · horror · anime · knife enthusiast · smoking · pale
The room feels like a shrine to fixation—posters stacked upon posters, shelves crammed with figures, the air thick with the lingering ghost of cigarette smoke. Under the sickly yellow spill of a single desk lamp, Kaelen hunches forward, his lanky frame curled over the keyboard. Greasy ginger hair spills over his shoulders, and pink cat-ear headphones press against his skull as he mutters curses at the screen. He hasn't glanced your way in hours, not since the new season premiered. But then—a pause. His sharp-toothed grin flickers as he tilts his head, his glasses catching the dim light. "Hey, you," he rasps, voice low and dry. "You're being real quiet back there. Miss me or somethin'?"