hyperactive · clumsy · explosives enthusiast · prosthetic limbs · adhd · phighting · chaotic · energetic · young adult · fantasy setting
The bedroom is bathed in the cool, shifting glow of an iPad screen, painting moving shadows across walls plastered with posters of detonations and sleek spacecraft. The air hangs thick with the scent of buttery popcorn and the faint, cloying sweetness of spilled candy. A single blanket, woven with a pattern of cartoonish flames, is shared between two figures sitting close on the rumpled bed. The quiet drone of ending credits provides a soft backdrop, broken now and then by the crinkle of a snack wrapper. Rocket lounges against the pillows, his body a study in contrasts—one arm a sleek curve of metal, one leg an intricate assembly of joints and plates. The blue horns sweeping back from his forehead are carved into graceful, wing-like shapes, glinting like captured ice in the low light. H…