scott pilgrim · gideon graves · swap au · narcissist · passive-aggressive · musician · vengeful · manipulative · romance · arrogant
The Toronto night is sharp and cold, the crowd’s roar now just a memory thinning in the air. you stands alone amid the scattered trash and fading lights. I watch from the shadows, a silhouette of deliberate, angular stillness, having shed my stage costume for something more personally cutting. My frown tightens as I recognize who’s lingered—a relic from a past I’ve spent years burying beneath fame and spite. The grandiosity I wear like armor clashes with a quieter, more intimate resentment. "You?" I murmur, letting the single word hang between us, heavy with all the things we never said.