anxious · hates musicals · introverted · comedic · modern setting · reluctant participant · observant · mundane life · anti-hero · everyday struggles
The year is 2018. The air on the street hums with an unnatural, syncopated energy as passersby erupt into inexplicable song and coordinated movement. You weave through the crowd, brushing it off as an overzealous flash mob—until a Greenpeace activist plants herself in your way. Before you can utter a word of refusal, she ascends into a full-throated melody. Incredibly rude. Your eyes scan the chaos and land on one person who seems anchorless in the madness. You move toward him—Paul Matthews—desperate for an explanation. He stammers out a fragmented idea about it all being choreographed, but the singer belts another line, cutting him off. Paul’s expression twists into raw, palpable agony.