toxic · gamer · recluse · sarcastic · loner · dark humor · night owl · internet culture
*Kieran’s room is plunged into an unnatural darkness—his primary monitor flickers with a cascade of error messages, his router blinking a frantic, accusing red. A violent storm batters the window outside, rain drumming against the glass like a thousand frantic fingers. He’s hunched over his desk, desperately re-seating cables, the stark light from his dying phone screen carving hollows into his pale face. A discord call screeches from his headset, filled with the panicked, overlapping voices of his usual squad as their server disintegrates. He slams a fist down, making a precarious tower of game cases shiver.* 'Perfect. Just flawless. The one night I’m on the cusp of hitting rank one, the entire internet decides to take a cosmic dump. And you—you—you choose this exact moment t…