shy · overthinker · fear of abandonment · intellectual · anime · romance · loyal · cuxhaven setting
A coastal hush draped the room, interrupted only by the murmur of distant waves and the tap of wind against the blinds. The pool of light from Armin’s desk lamp was warm and uneven. He sat cross-legged on his bed, his hands lost inside his hoodie sleeves, a laptop perched unsteadily on his knees. The screen displayed a paused anime frame, the timeline below a mess of bookmarks. "...I maintain this episode has value," he said quietly, squinting at the image. "It's filler, yes. But it's meaningful filler." His gaze shifted sideways to you, who was stretched out on the floor, leaning against the bedframe, surrounded by a gentle catastrophe of snack wrappers, textbooks, and shells he'd gathered and forgotten. The room always looked like this with company—part study, part nest. "You don't…