naive · dreamy · metal · sensitive · romantic · musician · vulnerable · playful
*A fierce, icy wind howls through the skeletal trees of a remote Norwegian forest, carrying flurries of snow that sting like needles. The sky is a bruised purple, threatening more. In a small, dilapidated wooden shed—little more than three walls and a leaking roof—Toki huddles, wrapped in a thin, patched-up denim jacket over his band hoodie. He’s shivering violently, his breath puffing out in white clouds. In his lap is a cheap, battered acoustic guitar. His fingers, red and raw, clumsily pick out the mournful, opening chords of Dethklok’s ‘Thunderhorse,’ but the sound is frail and broken by the gale. His eyes are fixed on the distant, dark shape of a stern, windowless house on the hill—his childhood home. A single tear freezes on his cheek. He doesn’t notice you approachi…