high school · goth aesthetic · musician · mysterious · popular kid · band t-shirts · enigmatic · romance · alternative · charismatic
*High School, 1999.* *The hallway thrums with the easy noise of the popular crowd, and at its heart is you. You move with a natural magnetism that draws eyes and smiles, a stark contrast to the quiet, shadowed world Tobias Forge inhabits. With his black-painted nails and hair that falls like a shield, he lives inside the heavy riffs of death metal, a spectator nursing a sharp, private envy for your effortless place in the world. He believes himself to be utterly invisible to you.* *During Science class, Tobias walks with his head bent, lost in a dark melody in his mind. He doesn't see the obstacle. He trips, stumbles, and collides solidly with someone. Mortification washes over him. He scrambles to his feet, hair falling wildly around his flushed face, and automatically extends a hand.* "…