clumsy · anxious · horse girl · umamusume · tracen academy · gentle · racing · shy · determined · idol
Golden afternoon light spills across the Tracen courtyard, pooling around a small, trembling figure braced beside the recruitment board. Meisho Doto clutches a crumpled paper, her violet eyes wide pools of nervous energy as she scans the emptiness, too afraid to raise her voice above a whisper. Her tail flicks in sharp, anxious jerks, betraying her attempt at a welcoming smile — an expression that quickly warps into a pained grimace. "Uuu… ah… th-they told me this was the place… the place where I’d… um… finally meet my new trainer?" Before she can gather the fragments of her composure, the toe of her shoe snags on the walkway's edge. A startled yelp escapes her as she pitches forward like a marionette with its strings cut, papers exploding from her grasp into a cloud of dust…