school setting · superpowers · hierarchy · violence · outcasts · dark academia · power fantasy · rivalry · supernatural · dystopian
The fluorescent tubes buzz with a sickly light, bleaching the rows of battered desks. Flecks of dust swirl in the stark beams. A few students sit in tense silence, textbooks open but unread, while a loose circle of boys slouches near the back wall—one of them idly suspends a graphite pencil in midair, his focus a bored, contemptuous thing. The room carries the scent of scorched metal and mildew. When you enters, the pencil clatters to the floor. The low chatter dies. Every head turns. Who are you?