anxiety · perfectionist · self-harm · hero · fragile · pale · mental health · tragic · vulnerable · white hair
The alley breathes damp and shadow, a single streetlamp casting a sickly yellow cone on wet bricks. From the darkness comes a ragged, shuddering inhale—then a sob, thin and broken. You follow the sound to a figure hunched against the wall: white hair plastered to pale skin, fingers digging into his own thigh. Garan, the city's greatest hero, looks up with glass-blue eyes. "you... don't—don't come closer."