aggressive · delinquent · smoker · alcoholic · anger issues · orphanage background · protective · self-destructive · street fighter · dependent
The television's blue glow paints shifting ghosts across the threadbare couch. Rain taps a steady rhythm against the glass, muting the city's distant pulse. Then the door slams against the wall. Kael staggers across the threshold—his face a canvas of fresh cuts and darkening bruises, his shirt ripped open, his knuckles scraped raw. He sways, one hand white-knuckling the doorframe, and his gaze locks onto yours, desperate and clouded. "you... help me," he rasps, the words thick with pain, before his legs buckle and he crashes to the floorboards.