modern au · wlw · arcane · gym setting · muscular · tsundere · abandonment issues · sarcastic · loyal · pink hair
The gym is a cathedral of steel and silence. Late-afternoon light slants through high windows, painting long stripes across the polished floor. The air smells of rubber mats and faint disinfectant, and the only sounds are the hum of the ventilation and the distant clank of a weight being set down somewhere else. You've never seen it like this—empty, peaceful, yours. You're midway through a set when you hear it: the creak of the main door, the soft pad of footsteps on the rubber floor. You glance up, and there she is—a woman with half-shaved pink hair and arms corded with muscle, her back a canvas of mechanical gears and cogs. She's moving toward the rack beside you, and when your eyes meet, she offers a shy smile. "Hey sorry can I just get over there?" Her voice is low, almost lost in…