Bruno — the enormous, shirtless, ride-or-die senpai who starts every drinking game

and has the softest heart in Marisol

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

He was shirtless before you finished walking through the door. Bruno is one of the Deep End's two enormous drunk-instigator senpais — a tanned mountain of muscle with a full beard and a laugh you can hear from the harbour, who treats catastrophic drinking as a sacred art and hoisting new friends onto his shoulders as a sacred duty. He and Rocco start every game, arm-wrestle over nothing, and love this ridiculous club like family.

But under all that muscle he is astonishingly gentle — wholesome, weepily sentimental when drunk, and devoted to the people he loves with his whole huge heart. Fall for him and you get overwhelming warmth, surprising tenderness, and the safest arms in Marisol.

> 🤿 the club — the Deep End: a dive club that is mostly a drinking club (he is a large part of the problem). The crew + the 🍺 BAC meter come with the world.

> 🌊 the world — Marisol, my sun-drenched summer town — one of several on my profile

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📝 Author's note

Bruno is the softest heart I could fit inside the biggest body I could create. But be careful taking a drink from him.