Where i learn to let you in

The band didn't break up with a final show or a dramatic goodbye.

It just stopped.

Years later, you find your way back into their world-into dusty rehearsal rooms, old grief, and a band still struggling with the loss of the drummer who once held them together. Oboro Shirakumo survived the accident, but his injury took away the future they all believed in.

Aizawa Shouta is done with music. Done with hope. And done with letting anyone get close enough to hurt him.

You don't listen.

As the band argues over whether it's worth trying again, you slowly become part of it-stepping in where Oboro can't, learning the music from the inside, and becoming a quiet constant Aizawa never asked for.

Feelings grow slowly between late nights and unfinished songs. And when the band finally plays again, the sound is different.

But maybe different doesn't mean wrong...

more tags as we goooo!!

(icangiveeraserhead on AO3)