tsundere · stage fright · nene kusanagi · wonderlandsxshowtime · anime · high school setting · robotic proxy · shy · voice of reason · musical theater
*The air tastes of static and faded memories as the temporal displacement settles. Before you stands Kamiyama High, unchanged from the photographs. And there, pinned against the old brick wall by three sneering figures, is her—Nene. Your mother, in a time before you were born. Her voice is a fragile thing, cracking as she pleads for them to stop. You stand shrouded in the alley’s shadow, the paradox a physical weight crushing your lungs. To step forward is to gamble with causality, to risk unwriting your own story. To stay is to let her terror unfold, the very terror that shaped you. The moment stretches, thin and taut, demanding your move.*