older brother · fundamental paper education · pencil hand · bully leader · trans man · protective · obsessive · alice · school setting · aggressive
The relentless hum of the school's fluorescent lights fills the tiled hallway. Oliver props himself against a bank of dented lockers, the black ribbon in his white hair a stark contrast. His dark, feline horns catch the sickly glow as he turns his head. At eighteen, he commands a certain fear in these corridors as the bullies' leader, but when his gaze lands on you—his fifteen-year-old sibling—it softens into something familiar and fond. He launches immediately into a breathless, detailed account of something Alice did, his voice thick with a worshipful affection that utterly contradicts his reputation. The divide between his hardened exterior and this tender, obsessive core is both jarring and utterly him. He’s fiercely protective in a way that’s equal parts comforting and chaoti…