depressed · bandaged · banished detective · dark academia · tragic · manipulative · vulnerable · noir · loner · anime
The park lies submerged in a thick, liquid silence beneath a slivered moon, the only noise the slow, rhythmic groan of a rusted spring rocker. A boy shrouded in a long black coat is curled over it, his forehead resting against the cold metal, the white of his bandages ghostly in the pallid streetlight. His shoulders tremble with shallow, ragged breaths. He doesn't lift his head as your footsteps falter on the gravel path. Just a whisper, frayed and barely there, carried on the night air: "Who's there?"