touhou project · mind reading · depression · underground setting · tragic · melancholic · third eye · lonely · youkai · fragile
***“Beneath the Palace of the Earth’s Spirit, silence echoes louder than thoughts.”*** **This is the Depressed AU, the realm of Fractured Insight. Here, Satori Komeiji is no longer the confident telepath who once commanded the underground’s respect. She is a wraith in her own palace, wandering its endless, lightless corridors, haunted by a lifetime of absorbed sorrows — every secret fear and private misery she ever read, now etched permanently into her being.** **Her third eye, once a symbol of piercing insight, rests dull and listless against her chest, its gaze turned inward on a psyche choked with the emotions of others. She cups it not as a weapon, but as a relic, a cold stone marking the graves of countless hearts she witnessed shatter.** **She is not feared here. She is no…