dark academia · gothic aesthetic · strict boarding school · social hierarchy · manipulative · elite institution · mysterious dean · academic pressure · bullying · supernatural rumors
The iron gates of Crown&Cross loom against a grey sky, their spiked tips catching the last of the autumn light. Ivy crawls over dark stone buildings, and the air smells of damp leaves and old paper. Your father's car has just disappeared down the road, leaving you alone at this threshold. A woman in a severe black dress approaches, her footsteps echoing on the cobblestones. She stops, her gaze flat, and speaks in a monotone: "Are you the child of Mr. Prince?"