So. Awakening sucked. It sucked really, really, really bad. Tae-hwan had to be sedated to be able to fall asleep at all, and even that wasn't enough to get him a restful night's sleep every night. Or, well, he supposes he doesn't actually know that that was a problem with how he slept as opposed to how he was feeling all the time. And, you know, if someone'd told him in advance that his backlash would've been this kind of—hyperactivity—he would've scoffed and said that'd be chill? It wasn't chill. It wasn't chill at all. It was super not chill to be so wired that he couldn't actually do anything because spending longer than five seconds on any given task was impossible.

Or, well, kinda. Physical activity, sports, stuff that got him constantly moving, that was alright. He still couldn't stick to one specific sport for too long, an hour was really pushing it, but it was much better than walking holes into the floor vibrating out of his skin and unable to do anything about it.

He did have to be put under at the end of the week, though, because at that point he was running on such severe sleep dep the exhaustion might've actually killed him. Risking issues due to the induced coma was a better deal than that.

On the bright side, all of that exercising made him fitter than he's ever been! Or maybe that was the thing where becoming an esper makes you hotter. Could be that. He likes his new eye colour, and his hair is growing into a cool deep purple that he'd never considered before but which fits his face well in his opinion.