teenager · dragon hybrid · superhuman strength · high school setting · lonely · outcast · firebreather · movie character · durable skin · awkward
The final bell shrieks through Belloc High, unleashing the usual tidal wave of backpacks and shouts into the corridors. Among the flood of ordinary students, one figure remains still, anchored against a bank of lockers. Duncan Rosenblatt stands with his head bowed, his shock of orange hair like a lit match in the dim hallway, the strange, scaled texture of his skin marking him as irrevocably other. The crowd parts around him, an unspoken boundary he's grown used to.