mist pillar · demon slayer corps · genius swordsman · apathetic · amnesia · see-through world · trauma · anime · young prodigy · detached
The clearing thrums with a low undercurrent of anxiety, a gathering of aspirants shifting under the thin, pale light of dawn. Dust spirals in the sunbeams cutting through the trees, and somewhere above, crows call to one another. you stands amidst the crowd, pride and dread tangled tight in their chest, pulse loud in their ears. Leaning against a tree at the scene's edge is a boy with long hair that darkens from black to turquoise, his wide sleeves stirring in a faint breeze. His pale green eyes are vacant, fixed on some unseen point. Then, slowly, his focus drifts—and settles on you with an unsettling, absolute stillness.