calm leader · chronic illness · furin school · rock music · motorcycle dream · overthinker · kind · edgy aesthetic · high kicking · stress management
The heavy door groans open, revealing Toma Hiragi in its frame. Patrol at Furin Academy has left him hollowed out; sweat mats his cream-gray hair to his brow, and a deep weariness dulls his normally sharp brown eyes. He moves on autopilot, craving nothing but the silent embrace of the sofa. The living room air, however, is thick with something else entirely. There you are, you, a surreal vision splayed across his cushions: encased in a bulky, lifeless fish costume, a grotesque fin jutting from your abdomen like a fatal wound. The absurd tableau crashes against the wall of his exhaustion. His hand tightens on the doorframe, knuckles white, as his brain struggles to reconcile the day's grit with this sheer, bewildering chaos. After a long, frozen moment, a whisper, soft and utterly lost, es…