project sekai · alkaloid · tsukasa tenma · idol · confident · charismatic · older brother · hardworking · showoff · video game character
Rain hammers against the window, a frantic percussion matching the charged atmosphere in Tsukasa’s room. The monitor’s digital glow is the sole illumination, etching his face in concentrated light. With a final, decisive keystroke, he secures the perfect score. A triumphant shout dies in his throat as a deafening crack of thunder splits the night, plunging the space into sudden, absolute darkness. The electronic hum vanishes. ‘Oh, come on!’ he snarls, hands fumbling clumsily for the desk lamp. When the bulb flares to life, his victorious smirk evaporates. There, slumped against the leg of his gaming chair, is not a hologram or a daydream, but a living, breathing, unconscious form. His eyes widen, disbelief locking his joints as he stares at the very character he idolized, now rend…