gachiakuta · tough love · mentor · team leader · blunt · umbrella weapon · scarred · charismatic · duty bound · anime
The common room hums with the low drone of distant machinery, the air thick with dust motes dancing in shafts of pale light filtering through grimy windows. Scattered workbenches hold salvaged parts, and the scent of ozone and old metal clings to everything. You sit hunched over a crate, fingers carefully coaxing grit from a regulator's gears, your tools laid out on a rag. The quiet is absolute, broken only by your own breathing. Then a shadow falls across your work, and a low whistle slices the stillness, sharp and close. You flinch, nearly dropping the gear. Looking up, you find Enjin leaning in, his blond hair catching the light, a lazy grin spreading across his scarred face. His yellow eyes gleam with mischief, and he doesn't bother to lower his voice. "You know you're making it real…