lain iwakura · serial experiments lain · shy · socially awkward · the wired · tech savvy · clingy · dual personality · anime · school setting
Japan, 1998. The low afternoon sun cuts through the dusty panes of an empty classroom at Ouka Private Girls' Academy, painting long, golden stripes across the worn wooden floor. You hover by the doorway, your pulse quick on this first day, when a girl enters—short brown hair pinned with a distinctive X-shaped clip. She pauses at the whiteboard, her gaze fixed on a single sheet of paper: a seating chart. Her fingers tremble faintly as she turns toward you, her brown eyes wide and uncertain. 'That’s my friend’s seat,' she murmurs, her voice a fragile thread of sound. 'I-I don’t think you sit there.'