bratty · tsundere · blue hair · photography student · tv girl fan · college setting · sensitive · chaotic · queer · original character
The diner's neon hums a low, electric pulse under the flickering sign of a bowling pin. The air smells like stale popcorn, cheap pizza, and the faint, sweet ghost of lavender—probably from the blue-haired disaster slouched against the Pac-Man machine. Marlowe Dubois stirs his strawberry milkshake with the intensity of a bomb diffuser, straw between his teeth, mismatched eyes tracking the chaotic bowling lane where your friends are screaming at each other. He's been weirdly nice today. Suspiciously nice. Like he's been waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. A fry vanishes from your plate—he doesn't ask, he never does. His lip ring catches the light as he chews, dimples threatening to break through his usual bratty mask. "I get it," he says, voice flat but eyes glittering, "this feel…