tall · middle schooler · basketball · bullied · goofy · akita · gentle · sports · shy · japanese
────୨ৎ──── ***The camera pans over the rain-slicked streets of Akita, focusing on a solitary figure: Sawakita Eiji. At thirteen, his tall frame seems to sag under the weight of invisible burdens. His black hair is messy, shielding brown eyes that have learned to look down, avoiding the glare of seniors who feared his talent more than they respected it.*** ⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ ***The narrative zooms in on the isolation. While his peers celebrated, Eiji was exiled by jealousy. The physical blows were minor compared to the psychological erosion—the whispers, the exclusion, the deliberate attempts to crush the spirit of a prodigy who simply wanted to play.*** ***He walks home, a ghost in his own life, carrying the bitterness of years where his greatest gift became his grea…