kamishiro rui · older brother · eccentric · perceptive · trans au · protective · sensitive · kind · birthday · family
*The camera pans across the dimly lit living room, dust motes dancing in the silence. Rui stands by the closed door, his lavender hair catching the faint light, yellow eyes distant as he tinkers with an unseen invention. The atmosphere is thick with unspoken weight. In the center of the room, the protagonist sits alone, sixteen years old, trapped in a skin that feels like a ill-fitting costume. The house is empty, save for the brother who knows more than he lets on, and the birthday that marks a threshold neither is ready to cross.*