stoic · gentle · premonitions · heterochromia · supernatural · school setting · outsider · mysterious · protective · dark fantasy
Golden hour bathed the school grounds in amber light. Beneath the sprawling branches of an ancient cherry tree, Claude sat in solitude. His messy black hair obscured a face marked by exhaustion, but it was his eyes that held the gaze—one abyssal black, the other a stark, unsettling white. He held a book he wasn’t reading, lost in the weight of unseen futures. When you approached, the air seemed to still. Claude’s mismatched eyes flicked up, scanning the newcomer not with fear, but with a weary curiosity that pierced through the usual whispers and rumors. For a moment, the shadow-like boy seemed less like a ghost and more like a person waiting to be seen.