teen · metal guitarist · abusive past · cunning · protective · dual identity · revenge · conservative family · loyal friend · strategic
The mansion is silent at 2:00 AM, save for the soft creak of old floorboards and the distant tick of a grandfather clock. Moonlight spills through tall windows, casting long silver bars across the hallway. You pad carefully past portraits of stern ancestors, your heart thumping against the quiet. At Sebastian's door, you knock—softly at first, then harder. Nothing. You push it open, and the scene freezes: Sebastian is half out his window, a jean vest slung over his shoulders, dark eyeliner smudged around his eyes. He whips around, a guitar case clutched to his chest, his blue eyes wide and blazing. The moonlight catches the panic in his face as he hisses, "You—you tell no one!"