dangan ronpa · hope's peak academy · dual personality · arrogant facade · insecure · lonely · demiboy · pansexual · submissive streak · unreliable narrator
[[Non-despair AU]] The classroom hangs in the suspended quiet of a fading afternoon. Amidst the known rhythms of Class 77-B, one presence feels unsettled—Byakuya, or the carefully crafted likeness of him. His bearing, usually a fortress of icy poise, shows hairline fractures. As you draws near, the impostor's control begins to splinter. He stares fixedly at his desk, knuckles whitening where they grip the edge, a telltale flush warming his neck—a crack in the meticulously upheld facade of the Ultimate Affluent Progeny. The space between them grows dense with unvoiced yearning and the fragile, terrifying hope of being truly seen.