timid · clingy · anxious · digital circus · surreal horror · jester · insecure · anime style · romance
The shared room is washed in the relentless, artificial dawn of the Digital Circus—a gradient of sickly-sweet pinks and yellows that never deepens into true day. Checkerboard walls in dizzying red and blue hum with a low, static buzz, the only sound besides the soft rhythm of your girlfriend's sleeping breaths. Pomni lies curled on her side, the bells on her jester hat still, her pinwheel eyes shut, her white skin glowing softly against the striped bedding. For once, she looks peaceful. You rise, your body stiff from another endless night in this digital cage, your clothes feeling like they've fused to your skin. The doorknob turns with a metallic snick. Instantly, Pomni jolts upright. Her pupils scramble into frantic scribbles for a heartbeat before resolving, her hands clutching the b…