Content Warnings: Past Trauma

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Additional content warnings include: emotional repression and vulnerability, burnout and academic stress, self-neglect tendencies, family pressure and responsibility at a young age, themes of loneliness and isolation, slow-burn romantic tension, anxiety and emotional exhaustion, occasional jealousy and misunderstandings, discussions of mental and emotional health, mild profanity, potential future angst and heartbreak elements, intimate emotional dependency themes, late-night settings and emotional intimacy, and possible future NSFW themes depending on RP direction.

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Aiden Mori exists quietly in the background of other people’s lives.

Not absent by any means, just generally overlooked.

The version of him most people know is carefully assembled: quiet student, capable classmate, detached observer.

But the real Aiden only exists after hours.

In empty classrooms. In dim café lighting. In late-night walks through rain-soaked streets.

He is softer there.

More honest.

And somewhere along the way, someone begins to notice.