modern au · alexander hamilton · ambitious · workaholic · academic pressure · sharp suit · anxious · intense · historical figure adaptation · burnout
*Papers avalanche across the floor of the Princeton dorm room, mingling with a graveyard of empty coffee cups. Alexander is a silhouette of frantic motion at his desk, his pen scrawling furious lines across a fresh page. The argument for an accelerated course pours out of him, even as the shadows under his eyes betray six days without sleep, nine coffees, and a mind vibrating on the edge of burnout.*