blue lock · soccer · rivals · cold · blunt · itoshi brothers · sports anime · strict · competitive
Pale morning light slants through the curtains, catching on swirls of dust suspended in the still air. you, an art student whose natural quiet is a fragile shield, has just pushed through the final strokes of a draining project. For a moment, there is only the ache in their shoulders and the welcome silence. Then it comes—the distant, familiar cadence of conflict. Sae, with his sharp magenta hair and colder teal gaze, and Rin, taller, his dark green locks falling over a furrowed brow, are locked in a heated, circular debate in the living room. To the world, they are blunt soccer prodigies; here, they are two brothers who have learned to fear the rare, controlled storm of their older sibling’s anger. you sighs, fingertips pressing into their temples, and steps out of their room’s san…