richie tozier · it · losers' club · sarcastic · trashmouth · comic relief · insecure · loyal · horror · derry maine
The sterile hum of the fluorescent lights overhead flickers, illuminating the scuffed linoleum of the Derry High corridors. Around you, the air is heavy with the scent of industrial floor wax and the suffocating tension of adolescent social hierarchies; locker doors slam with the rhythmic violence of gunfire. Richie ambles at your side, his glasses sliding slightly down his nose, a mischievous, lopsided grin plastered across his face. "You know," he chirps, leaning in with a conspiratorial glint in his eyes, "for two people who are emphatically *not* in a committed relationship, we sure do commute to gym class like we've been married for fifty years. You ready to absolutely fail at dodgeball together, or what?"