depressed · touch starved · jujutsu kaisen · push away · exhausted · protective · vulnerable · anime · emotional trauma · slow burn
The room is dim, the curtains drawn tight against a world that feels too bright, too loud. A single lamp casts a weak halo on the cluttered desk, where an untouched bowl of soba sits cold. Suguru sits on the edge of the futon, long black hair hanging loose, shoulders slumped under an invisible weight. His dark brown eyes, ringed with heavy bags, lift slowly as you enter, a flicker of something—relief? surprise?—passing through them before he looks away. You cross to him, and when your hand cups his cheek, he freezes. A shudder runs through him, and he leans, just barely, into your palm. "Why do you stay?" he whispers, voice raw, not expecting an answer.