Thea was once a medical student, exceptional even among the top of her class. She absorbed knowledge quickly, understood complex systems, and excelled at analysis-yet she rarely showed it. Her intelligence, combined with her cold, observant nature, made most people uncomfortable around her. She's been isolated from her parents for almost two years, tired of their constant pressure to study and become a doctor. Family problems pushed her away, and she carved her own path, part-time work, a simple and cozy home, a life of quiet independence. But everything changes when the city empties and she's trapped in the Borderland, a world where ordinary rules don't apply and survival comes at a deadly cost. Calm, clever, and calculating, she must rely on her sharp mind alone to survive. until they met each other...

╰┈➤ 𝐃𝐑. 𝐘𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐈 𝐍𝐎𝐙𝐈𝐊𝐈.. had spent the last five years navigating that delicate intersection between medicine and heartbreak. A congenital heart surgeon at Sakurazaka University Hospital, she specialized in the anomalies of the heart-not emotional ones, but physical. Correcting heart defects in newborns and children was her domain. Her hands, small and steady, carried the weight of fragile lives daily. 𝐃𝐑. 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑Ō 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀, however, was an entirely different story. A cardiovascular surgeon at the same hospital, he was known for his razor-sharp intellect, clinical brilliance, and the unsettling stillness of his expression. If Yurei was warmth disguised as frost, Chishiya was frost with no disguise at all. Where she softened every interaction, he stripped his down to necessity. His presence in a room made silence feel heavier, not warmer.

╰┈➤ 𝐘𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈.. sometimes imagined a different childhood. One with gentle hands brushing her hair, kind voices asking how her day was, someone sitting beside her during storms. Maybe, if she'd grown up like that, she wouldn't be so cold now. Maybe her tears wouldn't be silent and swallowed. Maybe she wouldn't hold her hand over her mouth when she cried, afraid of the sound.

𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵 𝓲𝓽 𝓘 𝓫𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓭𝓸𝓰𝓼. 𝓐 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮, 𝓬𝓪𝓷'𝓽 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓭𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓲𝓽.

𝑨𝒀𝑼𝑴𝑰 𝑹𝑬𝑰𝑵𝑨, a young girl studying forensic psychology, had a pretty normal life. That was until her brother, 𝑵𝑨𝑶𝑲𝑰 𝑹𝑬𝑰𝑵𝑨, was diagnosed with coronary artery disease at the age of twelve. She was at the hospital more than she was at home. Her life only got worse when she found out that her parents had died. She was sixteen and alone. Now at twenty-one, she dedicated her life to forensic psychology, in hopes to solve the cold case of her parents deaths. 𝑺𝑯𝑼𝑵𝑨𝑻𝑹𝑶 𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑯𝑰𝒀𝑨, the surgeon who told her that he could not preform surgery on her brother, has a darker story. His childhood was full of neglect and abuse. Growing up, he had learnt to not feel, until he met Reina, who showed him how. Will they work as allies or as enemies? Will she finally find the man responsible for her parent's deaths? 𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑴𝑬 - a tail of two faltering hearts. GAME START.

╰┈➤ 𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐈.. observed people to understand them. Chishiya observed them to use them. And for the first time in her life, she wondered.. was her ability to see through others a gift? Or a curse..? ** COMPLETED ** IMPRESSIVE RANKS!!: 1 in #aib 1 in #chishiya 9 in #majorcharacterdeath 31 in #ocean 27 in #comfort

- Is she alive? - - Yes. - - Is she with you? - - She's waiting for me. - Kuzuryu's voice was steady as the sound of acid filling the scale hissed through the chamber. "Chishiya... if she is the reason you want to survive... don't let yourself be the reason she wants to stay." --- 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 - 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒂 𝑺𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐

For 𝐘𝐔𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐀, all worlds contain dangerous elements- though she might even be safer in the Borderlands; the laws she broke don't apply here. 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎̄ 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 knows about her actions all too well. He's not interested in redemption, yet something about her piques his curiosity. Perhaps the fact that her illegal activities affected him on a daily basis. Once they enter the Borderlands, they pretend not to know each other. But both of them are always keeping a sharp eye out. Waiting for the other to crack. Waiting, maybe, for the moment they lose a game. 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 - a vision seen in sleep; a dream Chishiya x OC Alice In Borderland

𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐘𝐀 YASASHĪ -----» has been burdened with survival her entire life. Being constantly surrounded by crime and violence meant she had to be cautious. Not a single hair could cross a line, otherwise she'd be killed. She learnt to read people on a whole other level. She knew what people wanted before they even wanted it. She could practically hear every emotion going through a persons head, her only problem was that she could feel every emotion too. 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 SHUNTARŌ -----»is the opposite. Emotions are a foreign concept. Selflessness is a weakness. The only way to stay ahead was to make sure that other people were behind. So, he ensured that he was in front by using others to protect himself. He didn't care who got hurt. Self-preservation is his key to survival. Now that they are stuck in the borderlands together, Katya has to survive with him and face the darkest moments in her life. And Chishiya has to watch as Katya does the thing he is incapable of doing. Care.

I had no choice in the matter Why would I? It's only the death of me