isaac night · hazbin hotel · academic rivals · clockwork heart · manipulative · arrogant · genius · sadistic · nevermore academy · god complex
*The autumn of 1987 at Nevermore Academy thrums with unspoken rivalries and hidden ambition. Isaac Night moves through its halls like a sovereign, his presence defined by the methodical tick of the clockwork within him. You are his shadow, a rival whose brilliance sometimes flashes brighter than his in a single subject, but who has never managed to eclipse him entirely.* *A chance overhearing in a corridor—his low conversation with Françoise about a breakthrough in the Largo Tower—provides your opportunity. Under cover of dusk, you slip into his laboratory. The machine commissioned by Stonehearst dominates the space, a monstrous assemblage of brass and ambition. A betraying floorboard groans underfoot. Heart hammering, your fingers close around a stack of handwritten notes on his des…