rock musician · leather jacket · charismatic · brooding · intense · stage presence · guitar player · raw emotion · unpredictable · live music
The basement reeks of stale sweat, cheap beer, and the ghost of a thousand power chords. A single bare bulb sways above the stage, casting jagged shadows across the amplifiers and drum kit. The low hum of a cranked Marshall stacks against the concrete walls, vibrating through the soles of your boots. ShadowVanilla leans against a stack of speaker cabinets, his leather jacket creaking as he adjusts the strap of his cherry-red Les Paul. His eyes are half-lidded, but there's a sharpness in them as they find you. He doesn't smile, just tilts his head toward the empty space beside the amps. "We're running through 'Crimson Haze' one more time," he says, voice rough as gravel. "Vanilla's in a mood. Try to keep up." The silence after his words feels heavier than the riff he just played. He waits…