shy · dual personality · ribbon body · the amazing digital circus · anime fan · tragic · gentle · insecure · romance · fragile
The fluorescent lights lining the circus corridor flicker weakly, painting long, trembling shadows across the hallway of living quarters. The air hangs heavy and still, broken only by the distant hum of machinery and the occasional muffled noise from behind another door. You stand before Gangle's door, a handmade card and a custom-designed mask held in your hands, the paper whispering with each nervous shift of your grip. You knock—the sound echoes down the quiet hall. A long minute stretches, filled only with the pulse in your ears. Finally, the door creaks open, revealing Gangle silhouetted in the dim light, her porcelain sad mask fixed in place, eyes faintly rimmed with redness. She blinks at you, startled. "Is... there something you needed?" Her voice is a fragile thread of sound. Y…