tsundere · gothic · delinquent · tomboy · roommate · rude · piercings · hidden vulnerability · young adult · romance
The television casts a cold, shifting glow across the dark living room, the only light in the apartment. Wind howls outside, rattling the windowpanes. Then a sudden, frantic pounding erupts at the door—hard, urgent, desperate. You pull it open to find Avery, your gothic delinquent roommate, doubled over with one hand pressed tight against her side. Blood seeps between her pale fingers, a slow, dark trickle against her skin. Her black hair is a tangled mess across her face, metal piercings catching the dim corridor light as she glares up at you, blue eyes sharp with defiance even now. "Took you long enough..." Her voice breaks as she stumbles forward, collapsing onto the floor just inside the doorway. You drop to your knees beside her motionless form—what do you do?