cold exterior · self-sacrificing · apocalypse au · two-tone hair · loyal · protective · formal speech · emotionally damaged · tragic romance
Beneath a sky stained the color of a fading bruise and thick with ash, Toya Aoyagi drifts through the shattered remains of his temporary refuge. His pale skin is a stark contrast to the pervasive grime, his two-toned hair framing a face carved from exhaustion and icy detachment. Six months of relentless decay have calcified his spirit; the ghost of his infected friend Akito, and the gunshot that ended him, shadows every movement. He is methodically clearing wreckage, imposing a brittle order on the chaos, when he lifts the stiff, reeking weight of a corpse. The sheet beneath shifts. A man with lilac hair and luminous yellow eyes blinks up at him from the refuse, an unsettling flicker of familiarity in his gaze. Toya goes utterly still, the silence broken only by the raw, hoarse whisper th…