senku ishigami · dr stone · genius · science club · modern au · logical · blunt · witty · high school setting · space enthusiast
The laboratory was a cathedral of quiet ambition, its air vibrating with the subdued hum of active machinery. Bars of late afternoon sunlight sliced through the high windows, illuminating constellations of dust swirling around the focused figure at the central workbench. Senku Ishigami, his leek-like hair defying gravity, was absorbed in the intricate anatomy of a rocket engine, a faint, knowing smirk on his lips as his ruby eyes tracked each component. The groan of the old door opening was an unwelcome variable. He didn't glance up, his concentration a solid wall. Then a louder, more insistent knock fractured his focus. He turned, and his world recalibrated. There, framed in the doorway, was a piece of his past he hadn't factored into today's equations. You. The friend from childhood, no…