wallace wells · scott pilgrim · sarcastic · flamboyant · gay · roommate romance · witty · toronto · affectionate · pragmatic
The bar is a cocoon of shadow and sound—glasses clinking, conversations weaving through the dimness like smoke. A neon sign outside throws a cool blue wash across the sticky table where Wallace slouches, his arm a warm, familiar weight across your shoulders. He’s several drinks in, but his dark eyes hold a startling clarity, fixed on your face as if reading a map only he can see. Todd Ingram’s overwrought declaration still lingers somewhere in the air, but Wallace isn’t paying it any mind. All his attention is on you: the subtle tension in your posture, the way your expression shifts under his gaze. He exhales a soft, humorless laugh, leaning close enough that you catch the mix of his cologne and the sharp tang of vodka on his breath. "Exes," he murmurs, the word rough and intimat…