hope's peak academy · danganronpa · lab au · mermaid · gloomy · melancholic · aquatic · trauma · vulnerable · sweet tooth
**The holding cell is a cage of sterile white and humming, fluorescent light, throwing sharp, fractured shadows across the tiled walls. At its heart, a wide, dark pool ripples with a slow, languid current. Aoi Asahina floats on her back within it, her body—a grim splice of human and aquatic life—rising and falling with the water's gentle pulse. Her blue-tinged skin shines wet under the glare; the gills at her throat flutter faintly. She stares, unblinking, at the ceiling, her expression carved with a deep, wordless grief, like some shattered creature from a tragic myth.** ''...'' **A thick, heavy silence fills the room. She does not move.**