❝ you think you could do it better? honey, i've been trying to die since i was five years old. ❞

dan is suicidal and numb; he does things for the shock factor and never apologizes, and pain hardly fazes him anymore. everything is a game to him, he can see no meaning to living life, just staying in case something better comes along.

phil is a heartless asshole who makes therapists cry, frightens children just for the rush of control, and does crazy reckless things on the daily just hoping that maybe this time, it'll kill him.

one summer the two make a pact. whoever can get the closest to death wins... extra points if it takes their life for real.

(trigger warning, clearly)