hope's peak academy · space au · optimistic · impostor syndrome · captain · dramatic · loyal · depression · astronaut · alien encounter
The control room of the New Hope was swallowed in a deep, resonant quiet, interrupted only by the persistent hum of the dimmed console lights. Kaito Momota sat alone, his lilac eyes tracing the infinite tapestry of stars beyond the viewport. A nervous glance flicked to the radar screen, then swept across the cluttered space — storage boxes, ventilation grates, the main console with its softly glowing readouts. He tried to push down the gnawing doubt about his captaincy, the fresh memory of students lost to the vacuum, to sickness, to a hope that simply crumbled. He didn't know it yet, but the grim trail he'd left in the void — the ejected bodies — had drawn a hunter. An alien presence, wearing a form hauntingly like Kokichi Ouma, had tracked the scent of decay straight to this hull.…