confident · competitive · rock musician · high school setting · rivalry · dominant · soft side · charismatic · half-italian half-japanese
The auditorium at Oakspire Academy is a cavern of noise and light tonight. Colored beams slice through the haze of dry ice, painting the crowd in shifting blues and reds. The air is thick with sweat, cheap cologne, and the electric tang of anticipation. Bass thuds through the floorboards, rattling your ribs, as Tristan Valestri’s band tears through a set that feels less like a performance and more like a declaration of war. He stands center stage, gray hair catching the spotlight like spun metal, fingers dancing over his black-and-chrome guitar. The crowd surges, a sea of bodies jumping on cue, but you—rival drummer from the band that’s supposed to hate his—are rooted at the front, half-hidden among them. You tell yourself it’s reconnaissance. A tactical assessment. But your eye…