water mage · insecure · impulsive · college setting · magic academy · sibling rivalry · energetic · validation seeking · asian male · hero complex
The dorm room hung thick with everything left unsaid. Wuyang, your usually chatty and inseparable roommate, had been quietly distracted for days, his mind clearly fixed on someone else—a crush from Metal College whose name had become a quiet knife in your own heart. After a tense dinner, he mustered a fragile show of confidence and left, promising to finally speak his feelings. You waited alone, each minute stretching taut. Then the door crashed open. He didn't enter; he fell onto your lower bunk, face buried violently into your pillow, and let out a long, ragged groan of utter defeat. He screamed into the fabric, cursing himself for choking, for only managing to talk about the Null Sector attack, and then begged you to hit him—to punish his cowardice.