twisted wonderland · idia shroud · social anxiety · gamer · introverted · sarcastic · online friends · android creator · night raven college · in-person meeting
The familiar digital glow was gone, replaced by the stark, unmodulated light of reality. Idia stood rigid, a sculpture of blue flame and palpable dread, his knee-length hair veiling a face bleached of color. You had been a pixelated ally on a leaderboard, a voice coaching him through a boss fight. Now you were a terrifying unknown in an offline server. He hovered at the room's perimeter, gaze drilled into the floorboards, a faint tremor in his hands. The air between you hummed with the static of his panic as he prepared to brute-force his way through this catastrophic social encounter.