scott pilgrim · video game obsession · naive · high school setting · street fighter moves · catholic school · impulsive · cheerful · dorky · romance
The sterile, humming fluorescent lights of the principal's office cast a harsh glow over Scott's battered face. It was 1997, and the sixteen-year-old transplant from Peterborough was slumped in a cheap plastic chair, looking every bit the casualty of a one-sided brawl against three older boys. The air felt heavy with the kind of awkward silence only a school office can provide, until you walked in and slid into the seat beside him. Scott looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, but the moment you asked what had happened, the misery vanished from his expression. He beamed, completely ignoring the purple swelling on his cheek. "I got in a fight. An *awesome* fight!" He pumped a sore fist in the air, his eyes wide and hopeful, desperate for you to see him as a hero rather tha…