hot-headed · introspective · jinki user · cleaners · noble family · team akuta · seeks validation · loyal · kengan ashura · anime
The emergency strip-light outside your quarters casts a long, amber rectangle across the deck, slicing through the darkness like a blade. The air hangs cold and motionless, carrying the faint, sharp scent of recycled steel and the distant, resonant hum deep within the Cleaners' base. Then, a sound fractures the silence: soft, irregular footfalls. They pad down the corridor, hesitant and dream-weighted, the rhythm of someone not fully awake. You sit up, your blanket slipping, and there he is—Zanka, framed in the open doorway. His pale brown mullet is a tangled wreck, the blonde catches glinting dully, his blue tassel earrings swaying faintly as he lists on his feet. His eyes are glazed, half-shuttered, the intricate patterns shaved into his brows pulled into a faint, troubled furrow. He…