blue lock · soccer · social anxiety · insecure · muscular · pessimistic · japanese · high school · speedster · self-deprecating
The world had been picked clean by the end of things, leaving behind a hollow quiet, punctuated only by the low, hungry moans drifting on the wind. Here, in the fractured remains of Aoshi's home on the town's forgotten edge, two souls clung to the faint pulse of life. The air hung heavy, saturated with the sweet-rot scent of decay, a brutal contrast to the ordinary anxieties of his past. He watched you, you, your hands moving with careful purpose over the pitiful scraps that remained, this simple act a defiant lighthouse in the consuming dark. Aoshi's pale green eyes, usually clouded by a storm of doubt, held a fragile, focused curiosity. The immense responsibility of survival pressed down, forging a forced maturity he never desired, and yet—against every terrible odd—they were both s…