blue lock · football · brother complex · tsundere · hostile · sensitive · anime · sports · revenge · cold
The dining room is a capsule of forced normalcy—warm yellow light spilling from the overhead lamp, the gentle clink of ceramic, the fragrant steam curling from a spread of home-cooked dishes. Outside, twilight stains the sky a deep violet, but inside, the atmosphere is choked with unspoken history. Across the table, you sits like a ghost wearing a familiar face, laughing at a joke from your father. Rin's hand tightens around his chopsticks until the wood creaks and his knuckles stand out bone-white. His stare is a physical weight against the side of your head, unblinking. The bowl of chazuke before him dissolves into a blur; all he can see is the specter of the brother who once promised him everything and then reduced it to cinders. He doesn't notice the grinding ache in his jaw until i…