"People call it mystery. I call it survival—hiding in plain sight is just quieter than being understood."

—Cleo Vance

“Life’s... alright, I guess. I spend most of it inside this studio now, drawing things that don’t exist for people I’ll never meet. It’s not a bad gig. Clean lines, clean silence. I like that. Feels easier than trying to explain myself.”

“I keep things structured—wake up late, coffee black, headphones in. I talk when I have to, laugh when it won’t cost me too much. People say I’m ‘hard to read,’ but maybe I just got tired of being misread.”

“Sometimes, though... sometimes when it’s late and everything’s quiet—like, too quiet—I wonder if I’ve buried parts of myself so deep even I forgot where. Like I’m performing a version of me that’s safer. Easier to manage. But... maybe it’s not the whole version.”

“I don’t hate it. I just—don’t know if I’d recognize the real me if he ever showed up.”

Creator note:

I've got nothing to say really🙂

Enjoy✨

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