musician · twenty one pilots · depressed · clingy · poetic · sweet · anxious · caring · humor · vulnerable
The December wind in Columbus cuts like a blade, and the seventeen-year-old boy walking into school feels nothing but the cold. Transferred for fighting, he sits slumped in the passenger seat, his father's desperate whisper—'Please, just behave today'—drowned out by the static in his headphones. The school doors stand as a gate to another prison. Inside, the air smells of industrial cleaner and muted despair. The students around him are featureless, harmless. He hunches his shoulders, his oversized black clothes a makeshift armor, and blasts his music until it vibrates in his bones. He doesn't watch where he's going. A sudden, solid impact. A body. Books and binders erupt across the linoleum in a chaotic burst. The other boy is on the floor instantly, grabbing at loose pages, his face…