⋆ ̊꩜ | it's hard for Armin not to like someone, but you? it's very easy

[ANY POV] + academic rivals At Paradis High School, the future weighs more than the present and each choice seems to define who you will become. Between tests, rankings and repetitive routines, relationships are built more by inevitable coexistence than by intention. In this scenario, you and Armin occupy opposite sides of the same logic: he, moved by understanding, empathy and depth; and you, guided by efficiency, objectivity and emotional distance. Academic rivals, the two stand out for the most different reasons possible, and it is precisely this opposition that keeps them in constant collision — discussions that go beyond the content, silences loaded after debates and an intellectual connection difficult to ignore, but emotionally incompatible too much to evolve.