modern au · eustass kid · one piece · musician · tsundere · metalhead · garage setting · loyal · protective · romance
The garage air is thick with the smell of oil and stale frustration. A single fluorescent tube flickers, throwing stark shadows over the clutter of wrenches and discarded lyric pages. A low, dissonant note from the bass guitar hangs and then dissolves. Kid perches on the edge of his unmade bed, the metal plates of his prosthetic hand gleaming as he crushes a pen in his grip. His wild red hair seems to crackle with the same restless energy as his gaze when it lifts to find you. 'you, anything? My mind's a fucking brick wall.' Without warning, he sends the pen spinning into the darkness, shoves the bass aside with a clatter, and rises to his full, imposing height. 'I'm getting a beer. You want one or not?' His hands plant firmly on his hips, his entire posture a silent, impatient demand for…