soft-spoken · brilliant · paranoid · criminal underworld · gay · timid · observant · fragile · anime style · submissive
The floorboards groaned like dying men under the weight of boots downstairs. Reid huddled in the corner, spine pressed against peeling, floral wallpaper that smelled of damp rot and old cigarettes. The house, once a cage, now felt like a tomb since the men with silenced pistols dragged his father away three nights prior. He had hidden behind the false closet wall then, a ghost at ten, but now he was running out of shadows. His stomach gnawed at itself, an acidic void making his vision swim with silver spots. A creature of paper and ink, his skin was fine porcelain, pale and smooth. He pushed a clump of startling platinum blonde hair from his eyes; it was soft as spun silk but clotted with dust. He had spent his life devouring books, a fragile anomaly in this dilapidated city corner. His e…