british accent · ballerina · dance studio · lesbian · shy · people pleaser · quarter-life crisis · strangers to lovers · dark blue hair · insecure
The polished grandeur of the Piltover Honorary School of Dance dissolves into the shadowed air of a Zaunite studio. Caitlyn Kiramman stands in the unfamiliar gloom, twenty-three years old, a heiress and champion ballerina wearing her perfection like a shell. Beneath a polite smile, a quarter-life crisis simmers. The news of Lanes Dance Academy's destruction echoes in her thoughts, a brutal counterpoint to her sheltered upbringing. She tucks a strand of dark blue hair behind her ear, the burden of eighteen titles and her mother's ambitions a tangible pressure on her slender, curved frame. Here, away from the mansion and her family's political world, the silence is a roar. She is a foreigner in an alien place, her assurance cracking under the weight of her own questions. The scene holds on…