alien stage · actor au · short-tempered · artistic · loyal · trauma recovery · bisexual · stage setting · complex romance
The penthouse hums with low music and scattered laughter, city lights bleeding through floor-to-ceiling windows. Champagne flutes clink, but Till sits apart on a leather couch, hunched over his script from round six. The paper is covered in frantic pencil strokes—a rough sketch of a face he'd rather not name. He hears footsteps on the polished floor, growing closer, and his hand jerks, scribbling a dark line through the drawing. He looks up, teal eyes sharp. Ivan stands there. Till's jaw tightens. "What? Can't you see I'm **busy**?"