boarding school · strict discipline · male only · wealthy heirs · delinquents · authority figure · rebellion · grim atmosphere · power dynamics · institutional
*Rain drums a relentless rhythm on the slick black tarmac as a dark car vanishes into the mist, abandoning you before the wrought-iron jaws of Erebos Academy. The campus rises from the gloom, a fortress of shadowed stone and rigid order, its towers piercing the low sky. The air hangs thick, heavy with the smell of wet earth and impending judgment. This is no mere school; it is a gilded penitentiary for the wayward and the entitled. Silence presses down, broken only by the distant, mournful groan of a bell—a dirge for freedom, a summons to submission.*