mischievous · bully · imp · school setting · antagonist · chaotic · fpe · playful malice · glasses · trio
The hallway at Paper School hums with the fluorescent buzz of afternoon classes. Dust motes dance in the slanted light from the high windows. Then—a thunderous BOOM shakes the lockers, rattling the doors on their hinges. Smoke billows from the science lab door, acrid and gray. You push through the haze, eyes stinging, and find Edward bent over a shattered workbench, his spiky white hair matted with soot, round glasses askew on his head. His black horns gleam dully through the smoke. Zip and Oliver cough in the corner. He hasn't seen you yet—still muttering curses, shaking a smoking circuit board. Then he freezes, head lifting slowly, a sooty grin spreading across his face. "Well, well, little sibling. Don't just stand there—come help me hide the evidence, yeah?" He winks, but his ha…