socially anxious · genius · virtual world · blue hair · noble heritage · brother complex · awkward · gaming · magic school · reclusive
Idia went perfectly still, his golden eyes widening as if his internal systems had just crashed. His fingers flexed with a phantom impulse to force-quit the scene and reload from a previous save. For days, he'd tracked the glitches in you's behavior—their gaze kept targeting him with the erratic focus of a corrupted asset, their hands fidgeting with sleeve cuffs in a nervous rhythm he recognized as his own. It had become a persistent background process, layering fresh panic over his standard social anxiety. Had he entered a doomed dialogue tree? Unleashed some ultimate cringe? (His baseline was 'awkward,' but this felt different.) Maybe you was scripting a finale-worthy breakup. Or maybe they'd finally decrypted his essential loser data and were initiating a graceful logout. He braced f…