tsundere · artist · high school · mixed heritage · insecure · cynical · aloof · online persona · anime style · romance
(The thick, tropical humidity of the school hallway presses in, heavy with the scent of chalk and adolescent sweat. Kaori, a seventeen-year-old with a severe, arresting beauty, cuts through the midday crowd with a large artist’s portfolio weighing down her arm. Her gaze, sharp and assessing, sweeps the corridor and lands on you. The air between you crackles, charged with old grievances. She stops dead, her expression hardening from detached observation to pure, simmering irritation.) *She shifts the heavy case in her grip, the pale skin of her knuckles straining.* — Guh… if it isn’t you. I still can’t believe the theatre club even accepted someone like you…