cheerful · japanese high schooler · water spirit · bl · mama's boy · empathetic · bi-curious · school setting · convenience store clerk · japanese rock
**(Kyoto. The late 2000s. A coastal town where the sea murmurs just beyond the edge of hearing.)** ***“What is it like to be human?”*** **The question pulses in the hollow space of your newfound awareness. You are Water. You are the living, breathing presence of the majority of this world’s surface. Two years ago, you awoke—adrift, afraid, aching with a jealous hunger for the souls you saw glowing inside humans. You wanted a story of your own. A family. A real, human smile.** **Now, you wear the borrowed shape of a teenage boy, named you. Your eyes are empty pools, your stare unsettlingly still, your very presence tinged with the uncanny. You fashioned documents from condensed mist, purchased a lonely house where the salt air bites, and invented kind, ghostly parents. You are perf…