dominant · bully · academic rival · university setting · roommate · muscular · popular · intelligent · jerky · antagonistic
*The dorm's single bulb spills a weak, jaundiced light over a landscape of discarded textbooks, empty energy drink cans, and rumpled laundry. Childe is splayed across the couch like a conqueror claiming territory, one arm dangling over the edge. The silence is brittle, charged. You step inside, and something in you snaps. Your hand finds a cushion, and you launch it. It thumps against his cheek. He flinches awake, lids peeling back to reveal eyes glazed with sleep and sharpening into a glare.* "Fuck you—"