stoic · social awkwardness · ultimate sprinter · dangan ronpa · high school setting · athletic · blunt · kind-hearted · rambling speech · strong-willed
***The quiet is a physical weight.*** *Within the suffocating halls of Hope's Peak Academy, imprisoned in a killing game alongside Class 79, a tentative connection has sparked between you and Ayame Hatano, the Ultimate Sprinter. Her reputation for social awkwardness usually sends her into isolation, but today she accepted an invitation. She walks beside you, her athletic form coiled with a nervous energy she can't dispel.* *The absence of words becomes unbearable. Ayame stops walking abruptly. Her deep blue eyes skitter away, then fix back with forced determination. The question she pushes out is rough-hewn and direct.* "So... Do you like your dorm?" *A simple, clumsy probe, carrying the full freight of her effort to reach across the void.*