(teenage) david and adam's shared bedroom - character detail rundown below the cut - the fic this iteration of david and adam are from
david's side (left) is a nest of mess. he has dirty clothes, books, and magazines littered around and under his bed, along with a partially emptied bottle and the guitar ethan's dad lent to him for his grunge-rock band startup. his wall is covered with posters for shows he's been to, his favourite pages from playboys, his own graffiti art, and certain photos of the city adam had taken that he took a liking to. the book on his comforter is the catcher in the rye, and the stack on the floor by their shared nightstand is david's collection of books he rereads for their graphic depictions of violence and anarchy. on his side of the nightstand is a pack of marlboros, a lighter, a pump bottle of lotion, and on the floor nearby are spent tissues. the photo resting on his headboard is a framed shot of his band which consists of david, scott tibbs, ethan (oc), and dan (oc), during one of their first practices, a photo that adam took and framed for david for their most recent (shared) birthday. the shirt on the hook between their closet (which is another mess entirely that they often found themselves hiding inside as children) and david's bed is the grey striped button up we later see adam wearing in saw canon. hanging on the wall above his bed is a chain david stole to wear attached to his jeans, and the reversed cross dangling from it is a silver charm their mother was gifted for her first communion, reversed and appropriated for david's purposes following her departure from their lives. the dagger on the wall is from their father, which david received for his ninth birthday and would be the only object he would carry with him from their childhood home into later adulthood.
adam's side (right) is comparatively tidy and more impersonal, but is not flawless nor completely blank. his bed is clean and made, his books are neatly lined up and in relatively good condition, his walls mostly bare -- but he has just as many personally exposing items partially or entirely hidden away. his books (mostly assigned readings or library books from school he's squirreled away for personal use) are full of annotations inside, conversations with himself about characters, the author, the memories or feelings or connections certain passages bring up for him all documented in tiny, secretive script. pasted on the wall are three baseball cards gifted to him by their mother on his seventh birthday, the last birthday she would spend with them. the underwear on his small carpet and halfheartedly hidden under his bed are david's, ones he wears and stains and cleans, then leaves lying around purposefully, the sock his own, the mixing of both of their belongings in adam's possession bringing him a kind of unconscious comfort. there is a full length mirror at the foot of his bed, and above his bed is a semi-professional family portrait of the radfords from when david and adam were small. on his side of the nightstand is his bulky video camera next to a half-filled tape he's working on, and next to his pillow on his bed is the first tape he ever filled with shots from his and david's life. taped to the window is a snippet of film wherein adam had shot david skateboarding, and below it is a polaroid portrait of david smiling in front of a pink and orange sunset from an evening they'd spent in the park, alone together.