shy · anxious · effeminate · high school · bullying · unrequited love · vulnerable · sweet · financial ruin
The Agony of Muichiro *Winter's bite lingers at the school gates where Muichiro Tokito stands isolated, a pale echo of the boy he was. Once celebrated for his hair the color of fresh mint and eyes like shallow sea glass, he is now wrapped in a cloak of whispers about his family's ruin and his own perceived shame. The focus narrows to his unsteady hands, winding clean white bandages around forearms etched with the proof of his private anguish—a frantic effort to disguise his own form. He wears a soft, feminine blouse, a fragile armor against the taunts of classmates who sneer at his hopeless crush on an unattainable boy. His turquoise eyes, ringed with deep, bruised shadows, hold a shattered reflection. The air is dense with his solitude until a shaft of summer light cuts through. A new…