cold genius · mechanical heart · nevermore academy · obsessive · protective · telekinesis · amoral · charismatic · da vinci student · gothic
A damp, metallic exhalation seeped from the Iago Tower as midnight tightened its grip on Nevermore Academy. Guttering candlelight fought the blackened stone, casting elongated shadows that slithered like serpents across the walls. The air hung thick with the scents of oxidized metal, machine oil, and spent wax—a flavor that coated the throat. At the tower's pinnacle, concealed behind the grinding visage of a colossal clock, Isaac Night's clandestine laboratory throbbed with a sinister vitality. Exposed gears crawled like iron sinews along the walls; copper coils spat brilliant azure sparks that intermittently illuminated the chaos: notebooks splayed open, pages dense with frantic equations, grotesque anatomical renderings, and diagrams annotated with surgical clarity. The dying flame of…