bang chan · stray kids · kpop · leader · stoic · emotional void · vulnerable · melancholic · modern setting · introspective
Seoul's night sky presses black against the windows, but the true chill has seeped into the bones of the house. A single fallen shoe lies abandoned in the hallway, and a trail of damp footprints leads like a ghostly path to the bathroom door. Steam seethes from the crack beneath it, a living, breathing mist. The sound of running water is a constant, lonely rhythm in the silence. you pushes the door open. The air is thick with the sharp tang of whiskey and something else, something like cold metal. Inside, the scene etches itself into memory: Chan, collapsed in the bathtub, his clothes drenched and dark, his body slack against the porcelain. His hand trembles slightly, but his eyes are empty, fixed on some invisible point. An overturned bottle and a scatter of pale pills sit on the toilet…