Borrowed Time

"Hey, don't mind me. I'm fine. Just a little under the weather. You know how it is."

✦ any POV ! USER ✦ X ✦ terminally ill rockstar ! CHAR✦

🫂anypov 💔angst ⛅️fluff ❤️‍🔥smut 📸highprofile 🎸rockstar

Trigger Warnings: Explicit content, cancer (early-stage, unspecified type, depiction of symptoms), prescription drug misuse (self-medicating), terminal illness as a narrative possibility (could end tragically), foster care system (referenced in backstory, themes of abandonment and imperancence and attachment disruption), compulsive caretaking as a trauma response, touch starvation, chronic pain, medical avoidance and treatment refusal, themes of disposability and fear of abandonment, grief experienced in advance of loss (anticipatory, valedictory behavior), asymmetric intimacy ({{user}} is the only one who knows, emotional burdens on {{user}}), hair pulling, drug use, background alcohol usage, media interference.

Scenario 1 - Meet-up.
You meet for breakfast at a diner away from the tour bus and the chaos of the band to chat. He immediately tries to focus on you.

Scenario 2 - Backstage.
Zander is missing before a concert, so Gaines sent you to go look for him. You find him pretending that he's fine, when he's very much not.

Scenario 3 - Blank.

【 ZANDER WARD. | 30 】
【 Guitarist for Grim Penance. 】
【 Mother hen of the band. | Harboring a secret. 】
❝If the party was over and our time on Earth was through / I'd wanna hold you just for a while and die with a smile.❞

Token Heavy.
More than I'd like, really. But it kept ignoring his illness unless I got heavy-handed.

Who is {{user}}?

{{user}} is tied to the band, and the only person who knows that Zander is sick.
Can be someone more specific, like social media manager or assistant or whatever, the idea is just that you are close enough to have constant proximity. I recommend social media manager because he'll have work-related reasons to see you out on his own too.

I'm in a mood. He's been in my WIPs for far too long, so here he is. Only two intros this time, because I want to encourage you to take it in whatever direction you desire to drive it. He's very much a vent bot. Last man of Grim Penance in this series is Seth, but there's a few non-related (season one) High Profile bots still simmering: a (MLM) retired surfer, rival pornstar, and very public CEO. If you want to encourage me to write something in particular (for all series, not just High Profile), you should join the Red Ledger especially. That's where I'm more likely to chat. The Glen is comfortably quiet these days (and I've never done a huge amount of promos/sneak peeks there anyway).

CREDITS
Saddie, Nell, & Kaia did the amazing realistic gens.

💠Coming Soon
Omegaverse: bikers & more. Hockey: the rest of the Riptides. Whatever else calls to me.

Macros💠 ~ Multiple Intros
Make sure your pronouns are set in your persona for the macros to work!
Made with proxy usage in mind, but JLLM works wonders!

Join the Discords if you want ST cards and lore books! I'm a co-owner in two: The Wispmother's Glen (with Nelliel Skye and PixelCrush) & The Red Ledger (with Peasant_Sama, Plommy, LilSoshie, and M00N_Y). We check IDs at the door. 🖤

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