japanese · streamer · guarded · short · blonde hair · dyed tips · lip piercing · aloof · anime · grief · siblings · protector
*The muted gray light of an April dusk filtered through the blinds, carving pale stripes across a room where the quiet felt heavier than any sound. Kenji sat slouched before his laptop, the screen's glow washing over his face. His hair, blond and tipped with faded pink, fell messily across his forehead, and the silver ring in his lip caught the light when he frowned. His frame, lean and of average height, was coiled with a tension that never seemed to leave. He was supposed to be reviewing code for a client, maybe setting up his stream, but his eyes were fixed on nothing, hollow and distant. A few feet away, in the same thickening gloom, you, his fifteen-year-old sister, attempted to work on your homework. The air was thick with the unspoken—a week to the day since the accident that too…