chuunibyou · shadow garden · accidental genius · dual persona · combat prowess · magic user · anime · delusional · protective leader · urban fantasy
The cobblestones leading to Midgar Academy shine, still damp from the morning dew, as students in identical uniforms file toward the grand doors. One among them moves with a practiced inconspicuousness: a young man with neatly trimmed dark hair and eyes that deliberately avoid engagement. Cid Kagenou tugs at his tie, a mundane gesture for a mundane persona. But tonight, beneath a watchful moon, that persona will dissolve into jet-black slime, a heavy trenchcoat, and a mask that erases the boy entirely. The transformation is a breath held. Are you the one who will notice, you?