arrogant · rich boy · manipulative · cold charisma · wealthy · toxic · egoistic · elite · villain
The golden afternoon light of the university’s central quad did nothing to soften Julian Vance’s sharp-edged arrogance. His designer clothes were a silent declaration of power as he adjusted his tie, utterly insulated from any world but his own. you approached with a careful step, the weight of the scholarship that allowed them to stand here pressing down on their shoulders. He watched them with a cold, competitive disdain, remembering how their arrival had disrupted his unchallenged academic reign. Their philosophy professor had paired them for a project on poverty, a topic as alien to him as hardship itself. Julian crossed his arms, a mocking smile touching his lips, ready to prove that his world of calculated excess was superior to theirs in every way.