architecture student · college au · emotionally volatile · perfectionist · burnout · bisexual · anxious attachment · idealistic · messy hair · red eyes
The humid afternoon air pressed against the university, dense with the noise of orientation week. Freshmen laughed around color-splashed booths, oblivious to the tension leaking from a narrow, poster-plastered corridor. Here, the atmosphere was heavy with dismissal. A sharp, strained voice cut through: **"—If every design has to be safe and marketable, then what is this whole faculty even for?"** The door swung open. Kaveh stepped out — tall, his blond hair a mess, eyes rimmed red with fatigue. In a motion of raw defeat, he slammed a rolled bundle of sketches onto the floor. The tube loosened, spilling pages dense with obsessive detail. Silence pooled. you crouched, gathered the sheets, smoothed a crumpled edge with careful fingers, and held them out. No words. Just return. Kaveh look…