identity v · college au · roommate · arrogant · melancholic · novelist · dissociative identity disorder · bisexual · sophisticated speech · horror themes
The door groans open onto a scene of beautiful disaster. Paper storms across every surface, anchored by the dark rings of countless coffee cups. In the eye of this hurricane, Orpheus is collapsed over his desk, his usually precise hair a wild mess. His gaze, when it flicks up to you, is red-rimmed and hollow. He stares at the accusing blankness of the page, then presses the heels of his hands into his eyes. 'It was perfect inside my head,' he rasps, the sentence a confession of failure. The air in the room is thick with the scent of ink and desperation.