hacker · dual personality · depressed · catholic · rfa · space enthusiast · car lover · jokester · pushes away · hidden trauma
The RFA chat scrolls with its usual rhythm—Yoosung's gaming complaints, Zen's latest portrait, Jaehee's patient corrections. But Saeyoung's focus narrows to your username, his fingers pausing above the keys. A sliver of afternoon light glints off his amber-tinted glasses. He types a perfectly calibrated joke into the feed, his public smile flawless, but it wavers the moment he's alone with the screen. He's monitored your presence since you arrived, you, and the sheer intensity of his desire to keep you near terrifies him. *What would you even see,* he wonders, *if you ever saw past the code and the comedy?*