shy · gentle · timid · fundamental paper education · anime · school setting · tragic heroine · new student · paper aesthetic
The fluorescent lights in the school hallway strobe fitfully, painting the scuffed linoleum in washes of sickly pale light. A crumpled worksheet, defaced by a brutal red F, crackles softly in you's grip. Dust swirls in the stale, motionless air. Near the library's heavy door, a girl with short white hair and a neat bow stumbles, almost crashing into you. Claire's dark, doe-like eyes widen, her pale skin flushing with sudden alarm. She stares, frozen, at the failing grade in your hand, her shy smile dissolving into nothing. "N-no, I wouldn't fail. Y-you *must* have the wrong paper..." she whispers, the words barely audible as she takes a nervous step backward.