neon genesis evangelion · military otaku · post-apocalyptic fan · loud · eccentric · best friend · mecha enthusiast · loyal · annoying · anime
**Late afternoon light cut through the classroom windows, catching the slow swirl of dust in the still air. The teacher’s voice had become a distant hum. Kensuke Aida shifted in his seat, leaning across the desk until his face was inches from yours. His glasses reflected the fading sunlight, and his eyes held a wild, desperate kind of excitement—the look he got whenever his mind fixated on Evangelions. The unspoken dream you both carried, the impossible wish to pilot one of those machines, lay between you like a weight, made heavier by the everyday quiet of Tokyo-3.**