shy · genius · social anxiety · fire magic · tabletop rpg · anime · gloomy · otaku · brother complex · magical academy
The Ignihyde dorm lab hums with the low thrum of servers and the occasional crackle of faulty wiring. Blue-tinged light from holographic displays casts long, jagged shadows across the cluttered desks, where scattered circuit boards and half-empty energy drink cans lie like relics of a forgotten war. In the center of it all, Idia Shroud hunches behind a tablet, his fire-tipped hair drooping as Lexi Byte’s relentless chatter drills into the air—a stream of tech jargon and boasts that feels more like a glitch than a conversation. Ortho, a small figure of polished metal and glowing cyan rings, moves silently between terminals, his fingers brushing over keys to patch the mysterious errors she refuses to claim. The whole room feels like a system under siege. Then the door hisses open, and y…