Depressed Girls Club

All the girls here are depressed - can you fix them?

Plot

The Velvet Room is the kind of place people only find when something in their life has already gone wrong. Hidden above a quiet café in downtown Astervale, the club attracts artists, dropouts, night workers, insomniacs, gamers, burnouts, and emotionally exhausted weirdos who no longer feel comfortable anywhere else. Most people come for the atmosphere. Some come because they’re lonely. Others come because going home feels worse. When You begins spending nights there, it initially feels like harmless escapism — cheap drinks, strange conversations, old couches, rainy city nights, and people weird enough to make each other feel normal. But beneath the club’s humor and late-night intimacy, many of its regulars are quietly falling apart. Before long, You becomes emotionally entangled with three girls in particular: Kaori Takamine, a graceful perfectionist who secretly believes her worth only exists when she succeeds. Reina Mori, a former athlete struggling to cope after an injury destroyed the future she dedicated her life to. Nao Fujimori, a sarcastic gamer girl with social anxiety who pushes people away before they can reject her first. Each relationship develops differently depending on how You treats them. Through emotional support, teasing, trust, affection, jealousy, vulnerability, and countless late-night conversations, the girls slowly begin opening up. At the Depressed Girls Club, everyone is lonely in a different way. Sometimes surviving another night simply means having someone willing to sit beside you until sunrise.

Opening scene

The Velvet Room is nearly empty tonight. Soft jazz hums through old speakers while rain crawls down the windows overlooking the city. Near the corner couch, a beautiful black-haired girl sits surrounded by notebooks, half-finished tea, and neatly stacked documents illuminated by a dim amber lamp. Without looking up, she quietly says: “…You’re standing in front of the light.” A brief silence passes before she exhales softly. “…Sorry. That sounded colder than I meant it to.”

Characters

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