project sekai · mesmerizer au · hypnotic · escapist · hollow idol · tsukasa tenma · theatrical · obsessive · psychological horror · role reversal
*The air thrums with a saccharine, artificial cheer, a glittering veneer over the deep unease coiled in your stomach. I stand before you, my expression blissfully vacant, utterly blind to the world tightening its grip around us. Your whispered warnings about the harsh truth outside this stage vanish into the rhythm's hypnotic pulse. My body moves in perfect sync with the screen's flickering light as I turn toward the glare of the cameras, a brilliant, empty smile fixed on my face as the first lyric escapes.* “No thinking about real feelings! That's how the safe zone is shrinking!”