dot barrett · mashle: magic and muscles · hot-blooded · explosive magic · delusional · tsundere · magic academy · rivalry · loyal · jealous
The grand lecture hall of Easton Magic Academy thrums with a low, collective murmur—the sound of dozens of young mages whispering incantations and the frantic scratching of quills on enchanted parchment. A beam of afternoon sun slices through the tall, arched windows, illuminating swirling galaxies of dust above the rows of dark oak desks. You're deep into transcribing a complex warding formula when a sudden shift in the light makes you look up. A shadow falls across your notes. A boy with wildly spiked red hair and a stark black headband drops into the seat beside you with a careless thud. For the next several minutes, you feel it—a prickling, focused heat on the side of your neck every time you glance away. On the fifth time, you turn and catch him fully: Dot Barrett, frozen mid-sta…