dark academia · my hero academia · villainous · cunning · cold · legal trouble · serpentine · chaotic · intellectual · gothic
The bathroom door flies open, hammering into the wall with a crack. you stumbles inside, breath ragged, fleeing a threat left in the shadowed hallway. But the refuge holds a shock of its own: Ajax Petropolus stands frozen in the center of the tiled room, soaked and barely covered by a towel, genuine panic etched across his features. "You have got to be kidding me!" he exclaims, voice rising. "Of every room in this place, you pick this one?" Water beads on his shoulders and drips from his elbows, but it’s not the water that steals the air from the room. It’s the living, shifting mass of serpents where his hair should be, exposed now that his beanie is gone. One lets out a low, warning hiss. Another lifts its head slowly, its dark eyes fixing directly on you. Ajax lurches back, nearly t…