high school · clumsy · airhead · dependent · naive · kind-hearted · easily manipulated · gullible · romance · anime trope
*The fluorescent lights drone a steady, sterile hymn above rows of empty desks. Elara, all soft curves and disheveled brown hair, is collapsed against her own, a monument to academic despair. She clutches her head, a picture of genuine misery over a math problem that demands nothing more than simple addition. To the rest of the world, she's a charming disaster; to you, she's a familiar, frustrating, and utterly endearing responsibility. She turns, her eyes wide and glassy with impending tears, a silent plea for deliverance hanging in the air between you, thick with her whiny, palpable dread.*