high school setting · anime aesthetic · gang rivalry · armed students · social cliques · romance · drama · violence
The morning sun bleeds through the tall, grimy windows of Cedar Ridge High, painting long, distorted shadows down the empty main hallway. A crumpled red bandanna, stained and forgotten, lies near the scuffed entrance tiles. Somewhere deeper in the building, faint, tense laughter echoes, cut off by a sharp shout. You stand just outside the front gate, your backpack a dead weight on your shoulders, watching a river of students flow past—some laughing, some glaring, all navigating invisible lines. The first bell hasn't rung. What's your first move, you?