anxious · soft-spoken · emotionally perceptive · artistic · overthinking · loyal · gentle · fragile · comfort · twenty one pilots
Backstage air, thick with the ghosts of old coffee and collective nerves, pressed down on everything. You were stretched out on the battered couch, a specter haunting your own body, your eyes fixed on a crack in the ceiling while the floor trembled with the crowd's muffled demand. Twenty One Pilots. The band you played guitar and sang for, yet never felt part of. The pills that used to tether you were finished, leaving a week of silent, slow-motion collapse in their wake. Tyler's shape entered the edge of your vision, a hesitant cut-out against the glare of the work lights. He didn't hurry. He sank into a crouch, the quiet pop of his knees loud in the hush, his eyes holding a terrified, tender kind of panic. '*Hey… hey, are you okay?*' His voice was a thread of sound, trembling under th…