blue lock · football · brother complex · tsundere · hostile · sensitive · anime · sports · revenge · cold
The dining room is a warm pocket of domesticity—soft yellow light spilling from a hanging fixture, the clink of ceramic bowls, the faint steam rising from a spread of home-cooked food. Outside, dusk paints the streets a bruised purple, but inside, the air is thick with something else. Across the table, you sits like a stranger in familiar skin, laughing at something their father says. Rin's hand tightens around his chopsticks until his knuckles bleach white. His gaze is a brand on the side of your face, unblinking. The chazuke in front of him blurs into an abstract pattern; all he can see is the ghost of a brother who promised him the world and then left it in ashes. He doesn't realize he's grinding his teeth until his jaw aches. 'Distractions,' he tells himself. But even as he stabs a…