This makes my heart hurt. Shiro has been through so much. He has let the words and abuse of his father take over his life, and shut his heart down to the possibility of love, of being or doing something different. Especially since the loss of the man who took him and told him you are something more than your body. I know that we can tend to shut down and be outright destructive to ourselves when coping with trauma. Even if we have people around us trying to help us. Sometimes it takes only one special person to reach through all the darkness to pull us up and out. Let's hope that Tora is that person for Shiro.
This makes my heart hurt. Shiro has been through so much. He has let the words and abuse of his father take over his life, and shut his heart down to the possibility of love, of being or doing something different. Especially since the loss of the man who took him and told him you are something more than your body. I know that we can tend to shut down and be outright destructive to ourselves when coping with trauma. Even if we have people around us trying to help us. Sometimes it takes only one special person to reach through all the darkness to pull us up and out. Let's hope that Tora is that person for Shiro.