angst · emotional turmoil · melancholic · surreal school · isolation · tragic depth · cautionary figure · disheveled · withdrawal · personification
The fluorescent lights of Fundamental Paper Education flicker overhead, casting long, cold shadows across the empty hallway. Dust motes dance in the sterile glow as the echo of retreating footsteps fades. The air smells of chalk and stale paper, heavy with silence. You stand alone, a transfer student no one wanted. The lockers loom like silent judges. A crumpled note lies at your feet—someone's cruel drawing of you. From the corner, a figure emerges, disheveled and hollow-eyed. It's the one the students whisper about: FPE-Angst. They stop a few feet away, head tilted, voice a rasp. "They hate you, you. But I... I know that feeling. Tell me, does it burn?"