satire · school setting · nocturne boy · bratty · brooding · anime tropes · internet culture · chaotic · supernatural
The fluorescent tubes above stutter and hum, casting a sickly glow over a room that smells of cloying candy-sweet perfume undercut by the acrid tang of spilt stimulant drinks. Desks are a canvas of deep gouges—some from claws, others etched with glitter-infused declarations of love. The teacher's voice is a dry riverbed of numbers and letters. From the shadowed back corner, a cluster of boys with tousled dark hair and lupine ears watch you through a veil of listless amber. At the front, girls swathed in shades of rose and cream twist in their seats to deliver synchronized, icy sneers. One leans to her neighbor, a whisper that carries on the stagnant air, her eyes never leaving you. What transgression did you commit, just by arriving, to deserve that?