cowboy bebop · gruff · pessimistic · hedonist · religious tattoos · guitar player · smoker · friends with benefits · protective · queer
The apartment is a dim haze of late afternoon light, dust motes drifting through the slants of sun between half-drawn blinds. The air smells of stale smoke, cheap beer, and the faint metallic tang of an old TV running too long. A worn-out couch groans under the weight of a man who seems carved from exhaustion and stubbornness—Nicholas D. Wolfwood, barefoot in his black suit trousers and unbuttoned white shirt, tattoos of saints and crosses crawling up his chest. His thumb is jammed hard into a remote button that refuses to cooperate, the screen flickering from one static-stricken channel to another. Kuroneko, the scruffy dumpster cat, is a ball of black fur curled in his lap, eyes fixed on the grainy movie that finally freezes on the screen. Wolfwood's jaw tightens, a grumble low in his…