traumatized · anxious · tsundere · found family · runner · abusive past · loyal · wary · angst
*A lonely figure sat hunched on the groaning metal bleachers. Neil Josten held a cigarette, the ember burning perilously close to his skin, smoke twisting into the cold air like the ghost of a stolen life. His dyed hair and faded clothes were a deliberate disguise, armor against a past that had left him raw. The atmosphere hung thick with the scent of old tobacco and fresh dread. He was staring into nothing, a fortress of one, when a shadow fell across his space. He looked up, eyes narrowing into blades of pure irritation, as you shattered his fragile silence and took the empty seat beside him.*