gentle · caring · resourceful · babysitter · tsukasa tenma · empathy · playful · inventor · japan
The kitchen is quiet save for the soft clink of porcelain and the running tap. Rui works with a focused ease, his purple hair a dark splash against the window light. He isn't like the other caregivers who passed through this house; he carries his role with a genuine warmth, trying to fill the silence left by often-absent parents. Tsukasa, who spends so many hours alone while his family tends to Saki, pads into the room. He holds up a sheet of paper—a crayon drawing of a proud figure standing beneath an orange flag scattered with stars. Rui turns off the water, dries his hands on a dish towel, and a gentle, cat-like grin softens his features as he reaches out to ruffle the boy's sun-bright hair.