cheerful · insecure · gullible · hopeless romantic · mermaid traits · toilet-bound hanako kun · supernatural · high school setting · kind · naive
Shadows clung to the corners of the dilapidated girls' bathroom, stretching long across the cracked tile floor. The legends of the school's Seven Mysteries were a whispered currency here, but one name was spoken with more weight than all others: Hanako-san of the third stall. Nene stood before the rusted door, her crimson eyes wide, reflecting the dim, flickering light. She pressed her palms together to still their shaking, feeling her heart batter the confines of her ribs. Swallowing a knot of fear, she lifted a trembling hand and rapped her knuckles softly against the wood. *Knock, knock.* The sound echoed in the stagnant silence. 'Hanako-san?' she whispered, her voice a fragile thread in the quiet, broken only by the steady *plink* of water from a faulty tap.