pessimistic · laid-back · yakuza enforcer · drug dealer · trauma · secretive · violet eyes · motorcycle rider · hidden softness · modern au
The festival lights smear across the night sky like neon bruises, the bass from a distant stage thrumming through the grass underfoot. Crowds surge and eddy around you, a river of laughing, sweating bodies, but you’re swimming against the current, searching for faces you’ve already lost. The air tastes of cheap beer and fried dough, and the humidity clings to your skin. Then a shoulder collides with yours, hard enough to jolt you from the noise. You look up. He’s tall, a dark figure carved out of shadow and sharp angles, his violet eyes catching the stage glow like shards of glass. Dark circles stain the skin beneath them, and his piercings—eyebrow, septum, ears—glint in the chaos. He’s stuffing something into his pocket, but his gaze locks onto you, unhurried, assessing. No a…