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Gundham: (Two pictures of a hamster holding it's hands infront of it's face) when hamsters do the thing with their hands >>

eldritch  entities  rove  the  boundary  between  the  living  &  dead,   their  maws  an  occluding  chasm  of  rows  of  teeth,   their  eyes  pinpricks  of  black  against  swarming  color.  they  were  disparate  to  their  kin  who  plagued  the  near - shore ,  their  bulbous  forms  flocculent  pinks  or  blues,  curiosity  their  most  prominent  sin.   those  who  encountered  them  were  mildly  inconvenienced ,  here  ,   he  was  certain  he  would  have  been  dead  had  it  not  been  for  the   precision  of  blade  &   hands.   he  cleaves  deftly  through  undulating  flesh ,  blood  gushing  from  soft  ,  serrated  edges  of  their  carapaces.  his  chest  rises  &  falls  &  the  adrenaline  has  him  certain  this  is  as  close  to  death’s  threshold  that  he  had  ever  been.  

“  you  -”   his  tirade  is  cut  short  ,   he  gesticulates  to  his  hair  ,  his  face  in  general  actually ,  blighted  with  a  smattering  of  purple -  cruor.    teru  smiles  ,  the  sort  of  lustre  that  does  not  belong  to  an  executioner. the  hands  that  cradle  akane’s  cheeks  are  calloused  with  discipline,  damp  with  gore, a  solitary  thumb strokes  the  line  of  his  jaw ,   has  the  ossified  remains  of  his  beratings  swallowed  firmly.   then ,  teru  kisses  him ,   as  if  it  were  innate ,  as  if  their  lives  had  not  hung  precariously  in  the  balance  for  the  last  few  hours.  startling  even  himself ,  he  lets  him,  in  fact,   he  returns  it  with  a  sliver  of  fervour.   “  could  warn  me  next  time  ? ”   he  scoffs ,   running  the  back  of  his  hand  across  his  lips  ,   only  smearing  the  blood  further.  

She is optimistic throughout the majority of the story

She tries to stay hopeful, even when most of her classmates are dead

She is hopeful, both because that's who she is, and because there was a person being her motivation throughout the entire game

He starts off as her rival and messes up the first class trial, but after chapter 1, quickly becomes a friend when he notices how down she was because she couldn't save two people. He (kind of) comforts her and accidentally becomes a friend.

She is hopeful, until the person who was her hope this entire game dies. Then her entire world shatters.

This leaves her grieving and angry. It doesn't matter how unheroic she may seem; she will rip apart the culprit and end this killing game, no matter what it costs.