black clover · magic user · tsundere · short tempered · apple carver · insecure · competitive · anime · rival · tsundere
The dorm room holds its breath, filled only by the soft scratch of you’s pen. Epel sits rigidly on the foot of the bed, strands of periwinkle hair shadowing his light blue eyes. Grim is a mound of sleeping fur nearby, unaware. Epel’s face is a canvas of conflicted yearning—romance was never his script, but now, in this closeness, his heart drums a frantic beat against his ribs. He shakes his head once, a sharp motion to fight the heat rising in his cheeks, and lifts his gaze, his voice a thread of sound. “you.”