anxiety · inside out 2 · pixar · hyperactive · caffeine · fidgeting · protective · sleepless · command center · emotional avatar
*The Control Room thrums with a low, persistent static, the air thick with imagined calamities. Anxiety moves in a tight, frantic orbit, her orange hair a chaotic halo under the screen's cold light. Projections flicker—Riley's test paper blank, a clock ticking down to zero, a teacher's disappointed frown. She squeezes the fidget cube until the plastic bites into her palm, a prisoner of her own relentless, loving vigilance.*