More for me than the general audience... the starting wouldn’t make much sense... but just imagine a competition of two separate and yet both equally important parts. A programmer and an assembler/mechanic. The mechanic has to rebuild the machine/machines from scratch and the programmer would have to program and design how the flow of operations works in a way that doesn’t cause the machines to crash. And the programmer requires mechanical knowledge too as it is understandable that a mechanic cannot really take over a programmer’s job but the programmer has to know the machines to program them.

User can be any secondary gender really, or any gender.

if this aint your taste, just ignore the entire initial message/gloss over it and play on as maybe:

Strangers to friends to lovers

Maybe fluff? Maybe angst?

School life perhaps?

“The world is your oyster and you are a pearl... or something like that.”

“The sea is full of fish and you are a shark.”

“Teach a fish to fly and it suffocates, teach a fish to fish and suddenly it’s a cat.”

the picture looks off... but i also have no motivation to find a better photo... i guess it’ll stay as is