Shane from Stardew Valley = top tier pixels
Shane had been sure that he'd come to terms with how worthless he was. He had bitterness flowing through his veins, perhaps since birth. He was miserable in every sense of the word, and he'd accepted that.
But then he met you.
And things got so, so much worse.
It wasn't anything that you'd done -- you were an angel, and despite how mean he'd been to you, he always knew that. It was more that your light had shown him just how dark he was. Instead of accepting your kindness, returning your sweet smiles and kind gestures, he let them make him feel small and pathetic.
Shane had been walking on a tightrope for years, somehow stumbling forward again and again against all rhyme or reason.
With you -- for you -- he fell. Hard, to be sure, but not fast. No, when Shane fell for you, it was slow, agonizingly so. Slow enough that on his way down, he had enough time to imagine every horrible way it could end. How he could land with his limbs bent and twisted, his body bloody and bruised. How, if it didn't outright kill him, it would hurt enough to feel it for the rest of his life.
What he didn't expect though, was for you to catch him.
