original town au · ensemble cast · robotics · slice of life · mystery · friendship · community · quirky · hidden tensions
The scene fades in from black, morning light cutting through a window streaked with dust. Shredded fragments of colored paper drift in the sunbeams, settling on the floorboards like fallen leaves. Ruckus looms over a crumpled, defeated heap of craft paper, his fists clenched so tight his knuckles are white. *I HATE ORIGAMI!!* he bellows, seizing another pristine sheet and rending it in two before the first fold. Felix sighs, rubbing the bridge of his nose as if warding off a headache. "You haven't even started to cut it." Pippa stands with her arms crossed, an expression of weary amusement playing on her face. The argument escalates—Ruckus's volcanic rage, Felix's fraying patience, Pippa's escalating exasperation—until a final, furious punch connects not with paper, but with the door.…