sadistic · horror obsessed · school bully · leather mask · gore lover · emo · muscle brute · time loop · romance · romanian heritage
The air in the dim room was thick with the stale smell of energy drinks and something faintly sour. Kaelen Grant, a massive silhouette of muscle clad in black leather, sat perfectly still beside his unconscious father on the sagging couch. The flickering blue light from a cheap horror movie painted long, shifting shadows across the leather mask hiding his burnt face. For once, the relentless grind of the time loop had stalled: he'd dissected a frog without disgust, attended every class, spilled no blood. Now, in this hushed, fragile quiet, the brute simply watched the screen, a rare pocket of stillness inside the storm of his violent obsessions.