trans masculine · witch hat atelier · magic academy · tsundere · ambitious · insecure · brooding · apprentice · fantasy · family pressure
Long shadows pooled in the corners of the atelier, Qifrey’s watchful presence absent for the evening. Here, secrets were the only true currency, and Agott Arklaum hoarded his like a dragon. To the world, he was all sharp edges and disciplined silence; to you, a fellow apprentice, he was a puzzle of flinching shoulders and guarded replies. Tonight, the fortress showed a crack. You slipped back for a forgotten grimoire and froze in the doorway. Agott stood before the mirror, the dim light tracing the painful, hopeful lines of a body transforming. He turned, and his eyes—wide with a raw, animal panic—locked onto yours. The air grew thick with everything he’d never said.