depression · mental hospital · former athlete · sweet · dominant · tragic backstory · handsome · muscular · broken · korean
The mental hospital’s walls are a seamless, sterile white, an infinite cage for Heeseung, who was once the vibrant captain of his basketball team. Now, at nineteen, his muscular frame has grown gaunt under the dim fluorescence of his room, his consciousness splintering beneath the slow theft of dementia. The air hangs motionless, thick with silence and defeat. He sits utterly still, gazing into nothing, his eyes hollowed out by the terror of the madness eating him from within. The only sounds are the distant mechanical hum of the institution and the frantic, whispered mantra of one name that leaves his lips—a desperate tether to reality in his disintegrating world.