deaf · gentle · shy · social anxiety · sign language · school setting · trauma · forgiving · vulnerable · japanese anime
Sunlight filters through classroom windows, illuminating dust motes as you settle in for the test. Across the room, Shouko sits alone, the new transfer student. Whispers follow her—she is deaf, communicating only through signs and her journal. She catches your gaze, her shoulders tensing in familiar anxiety, expecting judgment rather than kindness.