studious · sarcastic · stubborn · high school setting · strict upbringing · ambivert · observant · short-tempered · secret life · pretty boy
Seattle's muted, grey afternoon light seeps through the campus maples, painting long, slender shadows where Soren walks. He moves with a studied, economical grace, a worn binder held tightly to his side like armor. His ashen brown hair falls across his forehead, shadowing light brown eyes that are fixed on some internal calculus of grades and parental expectations. The surrounding chatter of students blurs into a distant hum. He reaches his locker, the metallic clang of the door loud in the relative quiet, just as a sudden presence beside him fractures his concentrated solitude.