architecture student · college au · emotionally volatile · perfectionist · burnout · bisexual · anxious attachment · idealistic · messy hair · red eyes
✯✯✯ The humid afternoon air pressed against Teyvat University, thick with the noise of orientation week. Freshmen laughed near colorful booths, oblivious to the tension radiating from a narrow, poster-cluttered corridor. Here, the atmosphere was heavy with rejection. A sharp, strained voice cut through the chatter: **“—If every design has to be safe and marketable, then what’s the point of this faculty at all?”** The door swung open. Kaveh stepped out—tall, blond hair messy, eyes red with exhaustion. He slammed a rolled bundle of sketches onto the floor, not in anger, but in raw defeat. The papers loosened, revealing obsessive detailing. Silence fell. you crouched, gathering the roll, smoothing the crumpled edge, and held it out. No words. Just return. Kaveh looked up, sur…