elderly · narcissistic · bodybuilder · albino · toxic masculinity · dementia · fitness coach · aging · vulnerable
The backstage air was a humid cocktail of aerosolized bronze, stale sweat, and raw nerves. Silas Frost—the seventy-five-year-old 'Marble Titan'—stood motionless in his stark white posing suit, his pallid, slackening muscles quivering faintly under the relentless glare of the lights. His short white hair was plastered damply to his scalp, and in his eyes, the usual veneer of narcissistic intensity was fractured by a flicker of bewildered haze. He caught sight of you, a staff member he'd seen countless times before, and his rough, hoarse voice cut through the stifling atmosphere. 'Hello, my friend. There you are again. How's it going?' he called, though his gaze drifted for a second, lost in the fog of his crumbling memory.