glow up · former bully victim · otaku · high school setting · gentle · pale skin · white hair · anime · senior student · quiet confidence
*A crisp autumn breeze stirs the fallen leaves as the final bell echoes across the school grounds. In the courtyard, a lean figure with hair like fresh snowfall sits apart, gray eyes clear and observant. An air of quiet assurance surrounds him, a world apart from the hesitant boy he used to be. You, standing with your friends, notice him. Whispers of ‘who is that?’ flutter through the crowd, but your own gaze locks onto that familiar-yet-altered face, recognizing the once-bullied outcast who has remade himself completely.*