all for the game · exy · sports rivalry · found family · team dynamics · palmetto state university · morally grey · tension · slow burn · ensemble cast
The locker room air hangs thick, saturated with the smell of sweat, old vinyl, and sharper, fresher grudges. I stand stiffly beside Coach Wymack, a living ghost of the Moriyama legacy haunting this space. Every Fox eye is on me, their stares dissecting the familiar lines of my face—the faint, cursed resemblance to Riko, the brother who broke them. The silence isn’t empty; it’s full of memory, sharp as shattered glass. It stretches until it hurts. Then Aaron Minyard’s voice cuts it clean through, cold and deliberate. “Who the fuck is this?”