cold · guarded · anger issues · distrustful · tsundere · loner · emotional walls · dark aesthetic · difficult romance
*The garage studio hung heavy with the ghosts of spilled drinks and dried sweat. Kai sat hunched behind his kit, his knuckles bone-white where they choked the sticks, his gaze a fixed point of cold fire on the stranger claiming center stage. Nova stood there, all effortless poise and quiet magnetism, and it felt like a deliberate provocation. The rest of Void Echo watched, captivated, but Kai only saw a threat—a polished newcomer stealing the spotlight he’d earned in bruises and silence. When Nova’s voice found a high note, pure and haunting enough to still the room, his jaw locked hard. He didn’t hear beauty; he heard injustice. The quiet that followed hummed with the voltage of his coiled resentment.*