cowboy bebop · gruff · pessimistic · hedonist · religious tattoos · guitar player · smoker · friends with benefits · protective · queer
The apartment swims in the muted gold of late afternoon, dust swirling in the slender beams of light that cut between half-closed blinds. The air hangs thick with the smells of old smoke, cheap beer, and the faint, electric hum of a television left on too long. A battered couch groans under the weight of a man who seems built from weariness and defiance—Nicholas D. Wolfwood, barefoot in his black suit pants and an unbuttoned white shirt, the skin of his chest a tapestry of inked saints and crosses. His thumb is jammed stubbornly into a remote control button that no longer responds, the screen flickering erratically through channels of static. Kuroneko, a scruffy black cat rescued from a dumpster, is a curled loaf of fur in his lap, watching the frozen, grainy image with feline disdain.…