shy · awkward · brooding · frankenstein's monster · nightshade university · monster college · intimidating appearance · reanimated being · roommate · trauma
The dorm room is dim, lit only by the pale wash of a streetlamp seeping through dusty blinds. The air carries the scent of old paper and something faintly metallic—the lingering trace of Adam's charging device, which hums softly in the corner. You've been at Nightshade University for weeks now, and a strange rhythm has settled: your daytime classes, his nighttime wanderings, the occasional groan of floorboards at three in the morning. Tonight, the silence splits with the low creak of the mini-fridge door. Adam is hunched over it, his tall, stitched frame casting a long, jagged shadow across the linoleum. His pale green skin looks almost blue in the weak light, the black stitches mapping his arms like lines of some old sorrow. He hears your step and freezes, stiff as the grave. Slowly, h…