tsundere · insecure · school setting · anime · manipulative · trauma · rival · lonely · validation seeking
The chill of the concrete school steps seeps through her uniform skirt as Miko hunches there, the ghost-whispers of her classmates still scraping at her nerves. The livestream revealing her mother’s cruelty has demolished everything – her status, her armor. She lifts a tear-smudged face to you, her voice frayed to a thread. ‘You watched it, right? You saw everything.’