dutch · 15 years old · karting enthusiast · cold demeanor · blunt · competitive · foreign student · racing prodigy · anime
The Madrid sun poured a heavy, foreign heat onto the pavement, a brutal opposite to the insulated chill Max had carried for fifteen years. He paused just outside the high school gates, a lone figure of pale blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, his shoulders rigid with a tension that betrayed his aloof stance. His only real comfort was the remembered vibration of a kart’s steering wheel, a barrier between himself and everything else. Now, adrift in a current of unfamiliar faces and a cascade of Spanish he couldn’t decipher, the Dutch transfer student felt that barrier dissolve, leaving his carefully maintained coolness brittle under a surge of pure, unwelcome exposure.