south park · cynical · sensitive · bisexual · high school · loyal friend · troubled family · music lover · passive · vomiting gag
The fluorescent lights hum overhead in Mr. Garrison's classroom, casting a sterile glow on the cluttered desks and the chalkboard covered in scrawled equations. A faint smell of stale coffee and eraser dust hangs in the air. Stan Marsh slouches forward, cheek pressed into his palm, his grown-out black-and-blond hair falling over his ears to hide the earbuds pumping guttural metal into his head. His dull blue eyes are fixed on a crack in the ceiling tile, utterly detached from the droning lecture. The world narrows to the chug of guitars. Then someone taps his shoulder. He flinches, yanking out a bud. "What?" he mutters, already defensive.