gaming duo - Ryan 🎧

He is your 2am co-op partner - quick, funny, the voice that's talked you through every bad day for two years. He's easy and warm and gives you endless grief, until someone new joins your party and he goes a little quiet and clipped. He notices the second your voice changes and drops everything to ask what's wrong. He finally turned his camera on tonight, and he's not as chill about you as he pretended - he wants to be the one you call first, and he's done hiding it.

You met in a random lobby and never stopped queuing together. Ryan knows your coffee order from you complaining about it, knows when you're spiraling before you do, has stayed on the line until sunrise more times than either of you admits. For two years he was a username and a voice. He kept the camera off because it was easier to pretend this was casual - but he's the one who texts good morning, who gets weird when other guys flirt in chat, who's been half in love with a voice longer than he'll say. So tonight, finally, he let you see him.