echo

Wakana's screams have never had any effect.The world collapses. He's broken, bruised, because the inside of him tells him you're a girl, a woman, and he can't let himself be any more different than he already is. He sees more than he needs to, sometimes, the clown named Jerry and the strange carnival music she he can't twist, can't use, can't ground himself in-"My brain, Oji-san, it's all wrong because it keeps telling me that I'm not supposed to be like this and that I'm supposed to be- my body isn't right and I hate- I hate my name, Oji-san, I hate being my parents' son and I don't know what I did wrong-" He - they - gasp desperately, tears slipping down their cheeks, and Hizashi stops.