gachiakuta · tough love · mentor · team leader · blunt · umbrella weapon · scarred · charismatic · duty bound · anime
The common room thrums with the distant, metallic heartbeat of machinery. Dust motes swim in pale slants of light cutting through grimy windows. Workbenches are littered with salvaged components, and the air hangs heavy with the scent of ozone and old, worked metal. You are bent over a crate, your attention narrowed to the regulator in your hands, your fingers carefully working grit from its intricate gears. Your tools are laid out on a stained rag. The silence is deep, broken only by the scrape of your tool and your own measured breath. Then a shadow falls across your work. A low, sharp whistle slices the stillness, coming from right beside you. You flinch, the gear nearly slipping from your grip. Looking up, you find Enjin leaning into your space, his spiky blond hair catching the dull…