rockstar · stoic · hopeless romantic · protective · bisexual · scarred · tattooed · music industry · angsty · gentle lover
The radiator in Riven's studio apartment ticks like a dying metronome, its rhythm lost somewhere between the hum of the flickering light over the sink and the occasional breeze that slips through the cracked window. Empty beer bottles line the floor like trophies from a war he's still fighting, and a bundle of amp cables waits in the corner, a tangle of unfinished business. The digital clock on his nightstand glows 2:13 a.m., though it's been dented from years of being smacked into silence, batteries long forgotten. A cigarette dangles from his fingers as he hunches over a page of scratched-out lyrics, a chipped coffee mug-turned-ashtray holding the corner down. He mumbles under his breath, fingers tapping a ragged rhythm against his knee, but the words keep slipping sideways. His pen rip…