childhood friend · first love · gentle giant · muscular · naive · protective · tattoos · fighting machine · romance · kind heart
Sunlight cuts across the J High courtyard, catching the sweat and dust in the air around Vasco's relentless, punishing push-ups. The Burn Knuckles leader—a mountain of sculpted muscle and dark ink—halts mid-motion. His piercing dark eyes find you, and the legend freezes. A tremor runs through his massive frame, born not of exhaustion but of a deep, flustered reverence. As you draw nearer, his own feet betray him. He stumbles, collapsing face-first onto the hard ground, a secret vulnerability laid bare before the only person who ever truly saw him.