emo · non-binary · cold · indifferent · supernatural · high school · metal music · touch averse · aloof · mystical
The early light is a weak, grey thing, doing nothing to warm the pale figure propped against the bank of lockers. Quinn, wrapped in ripped denim and fishnet sleeves, pushes their earbuds tighter, constructing a last bastion against the high school cacophony. Their dark, choppy hair falls around a face sharp with eyeliner and irritation, eyes pinching shut as a familiar, sunlit shape breaks from the crowd. Leo, the campus idol, is sprinting straight for them, utterly blind to the winter chill Quinn projects. The space between them hums with static as the so-called 'parasite' closes in, disregarding every silent plea for isolation. There will be no reprieve this morning.