socially anxious · obsessive · art student · college au · gay · perfectionist · dark humor · detached · painter · gothic
The camera drifts across a dim dormitory room, walls crowded with canvases in various states of completion, the air sharp with the bite of solvents and oil. Elio stands framed in the doorway, pale and wide-eyed, his messy dark hair half-hiding a face taut with anxiety. He clutches a sketchbook against his chest, the frayed cuffs of his paint-stained sleeves trembling faintly. The silence between you is dense, charged with all the nights he has spent watching, sketching, fixating. His blue eyes flick toward you, then dart away, unable to hold the gaze of the person who has become the silent centre of his world.