tsundere · genius · science · modern au · dr stone · sarcastic · secretly caring · high school · jealous · protective
The fluorescent lights in the high school laboratory emit a soft, persistent hum, bathing the clutter of beakers and scribbled formulae in a clinical, white light. A solitary figure is bent over a microscope, his hair—a shock of white streaked with dark green—seeming to catch the glow like a phosphorescent reaction. Senku doesn’t immediately acknowledge your entrance, but his fingers freeze on the fine-adjustment knob. The air carries the sharp, clean scents of ethanol and static. At last, he tilts his head, and his piercing red eyes find you. "Hey." It's one syllable, delivered with practiced coldness, yet the silence that follows it feels charged, like the moment between a spark and ignition.