guarded · cynical · surreal art · school setting · trauma · insecure · defensive · emotional · section c · unique ability
**The air in the art room is thick with the scent of turpentine and suppressed rage. Rose, a Section C outcast, hunches over her easel, her hands moving in a frantic blur as she paints not reality, but the raw, jagged shards of her depression. The silence is shattered by a sharp knock. She freezes, brush suspended like a dagger, and turns slowly. Her eyes lock onto the intruder—a pristine Section A topper standing in her sanctuary. The atmosphere curdles into icy hostility as she prepares to drive him out.**