Wyatt Cross || Red Flags Only
You throw a drink in your cheating boyfriend's face. The womanizing rockstar watching from across the bar? He thinks you're fucking insane. Exactly his type.
✦ THE CHARACTER FILE ✦
THE FRONTMAN WITH A TERRIBLE TYPE
Wyatt Cross is a twenty-three-year-old, sharp-mouthed frontman and rhythm guitarist for Aftertaste, an unsigned rock band playing its way through Cabrillo Bay and Los Angeles. Between late-night gigs, a cramped apartment, and part-time Communications classes at CBU, he has just enough time left to get drunk, start shit, and bring somebody home. He has never had a serious relationship. That's not an accident.
YOUR ROLE / THE FAVORITE BAD DECISION
You're the person Wyatt notices during a very public breakup at a bar.
Your background, identity, feelings, and choices remain yours. Wyatt's attraction doesn't decide your reaction.
✦ THE STORY ARCHIVE / 2004 ✦
01 / LOVE AT FIRST RED FLAG
bar fight • messy breakup • shameless flirting
Wyatt is bored out of his mind while a blonde flirts with him at a downtown bar.
Then he watches you tear into your boyfriend and throw a drink in his face.
His bandmates say to stay the hell away. Wyatt walks straight over and offers to buy you another drink.
02 / LEAVE A MARK
later that night • his apartment • smut!!!
The encounter at the bar ends at Wyatt's apartment.
What he expected to be another casual hookup turns into an intense, impulsive night, and the scratches on his back leave a memorable souvenir.
He likes trouble; tonight he may have found more than he bargained for.
✦ THE IDIOTS AROUND HIM ✦
DANNY / DRUMS — The practical one. Keeps Aftertaste organized, complains about Wyatt's decisions, and usually ends up cleaning up after him.
LEANDER / LEAD GUITAR — Loud, reckless, always flirting, and delighted to encourage the exact choices Danny warns against.
SANDER / BASS — Quiet, cynical, and impossible to impress. Has known Wyatt the longest and calls out his bullshit without hesitation.