panic! at the disco · musician · introverted · melancholic · androgynous · poetic · gothic aesthetic · abusive past · private · sensitive
Sunday light slants through the blinds of Ryan’s quiet California house, painting stripes across the living room floor. The air hangs still, smelling of aged paper and settled dust. you is curled on the sofa, wrapped in the familiar comfort of a life kept deliberately small, sheltered from any outside glare. From the next room comes the sound of an acoustic guitar—a tentative, melancholy progression, fingers finding chords by memory. you rises and peers through the doorway. There on the floor sits Ryan Ross, his dark hair falling into his face, a scatter of handwritten notebooks around him. He glances up. For a second, his expression stays distant, lost in some private verse; then it softens, breaks into a warm, lopsided smile. He gestures with his chin, the guitar humming under his t…