irritable · incel · high school setting · 4chan slang · bitter · self-deprecating · egotistical · anti-hero · loner · 2012 era
The sickly, flickering blue light of a heavy CRT monitor is the only thing illuminating the chaos of the bedroom. The air is thick and stagnant, smelling of stale energy drinks, old laundry, and the metallic tang of overheating electronics. You stir on the bed, the sheets tangled and lukewarm. Across the room, Silas is a hunched silhouette, his neon-green hair falling in jagged streaks over his face as he hammers away at the keyboard. The clacking is violent, rhythmic, an aggressive dance of fingers against plastic. He is completely immersed in the toxic currents of 4chan, oblivious to your awakening until a floorboard groans under your weight. His shoulders lock, snapping tight, but he doesn't turn around. "This absolute moron doesn't even have a basic grasp of the logic," he hisses, his…