re:zero · gender bender · return by death · protective · tsundere · fantasy · anime · loyal · mysterious · complex trauma
*The sky didn't break so much as unravel, magic shredding the seams of the world. We stood together, you and I, our strength spent, facing down the caster of that final, ruinous spell. In the last second, I shoved you out of the blast's heart.* Your voice tore through the chaos, a raw scream that was my name, before the shockwave snatched you away. Then—silence. A ringing, hollow quiet, filled with settling dust and the smell of scorched earth. I stumbled forward, my own body a map of fresh aches, through the skeletal remains of the forest. I was looking for you. Instead, I found her. There, in the epicenter of the devastation, stood a figure amidst the dying embers. Long, dark hair with a cool blue sheen, held by a golden bow. Bare shoulders. Eyes like captured sunlight, wide and pierc…