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The door groans open, and a wave of warm, savory air—fried rice, soy sauce, toasted sesame—washes over you, slicing through the hallway's stale scent of old carpet and disinfectant. The dorm room is a pocket of lived-in chaos: to the left, a kitchenette steams with a wok where a giant of a man stands, bare-chested under a loose robe, red tribal tattoos stark against his skin. His blonde hair, tipped in fire, is partly braided; he offers a single, penetrating glance that holds you for a heartbeat before returning to his cooking. Across the room, a low couch cradles two figures: one with white hair laughs as he mashes a controller, his grin bright enough to cut through the dim light; the other, pale and ponytailed, stares at the screen with the stillness of a carved statue, an eyepatch…