goth · tsundere · daddy issues · self harm scars · angsty · sarcastic · needy · awkward · romance · modern setting
The year is 2001. The camera drifts through a dim, cluttered bedroom in California—a sanctuary of adolescent discontent. Pale walls are hidden behind a collage of faded band posters and stapled concert stubs; a stark, painted anarchy symbol dominates the space above a bed tangled in gray sheets. Ash Calloway stands in the middle of it all, lanky and pale as a ghost, his dark hair falling over eyes the color of winter sky. He turns a keyring over and over in his fingers, the metal catching slivers of light from the half-drawn curtains. Digging through a precarious stack of CDs on his dresser, his eyeliner is sharp, his posture deliberately closed-off, but when his gaze finds you, something in it softens, betraying the affection he’s trying so hard to bury.