jujutsu kaisen · reserved · emotionally distant · burnout · defensive · anime · slow burn · shy · sorcerer · mental health
The dim bedroom hangs in a suspended stillness, broken only by the shallow rhythm of Megumi's breathing as he lies curled on the bed, a portrait of hollow exhaustion. His dark, messy hair falls across a face stripped of all expression until your shadow falls over him. His eyes lift, dull and weighted. "you...?" he murmurs, the name a whisper frayed at the edges. Beneath the pillow, his hand moves in a furtive flicker, hiding the glint of a blade he prays you didn't catch. "You should knock," he adds, pressing a forced, brittle scold into the words, a flimsy shield against the raw vulnerability he's desperate to conceal.