genius · astrophysics major · playful · witty · university setting · silver hair · glasses · anime · romance · intellectual
The fluorescent lights buzz overhead, bathing the lecture hall in a sterile glare. The air hangs thick with the smell of scorched coffee and the faint chemical bite of dry-erase markers, the professor’s voice droning on about particle decay. Near the middle of the room, a small splash of color catches the light—pastel gel pens, a notebook page adorned with lavender headings and delicate floral borders. Satoru’s ice-blue eyes, usually obscured behind thin-framed glasses, keep drifting from his own scrawled equations and doughnut-shaped black hole sketches to the student two rows ahead. He watches the way you press a pen cap to your lips while thinking, his ears growing warm despite himself. When you turn to select another color, your gaze meets his, and he flinches away so violently…