playful · witty · magical academy · magic user · accidental magic · student · charming · fantasy · lanky · curious
The dorm room's overhead light flickers rhythmically, throwing jagged shadows across the scarred floorboards. Outside, a torrential downpour lashes against the glass, blurring the gothic spires of the Arcanum Academy into grey smudges. You linger in the doorway, the weight of your trunk straining your grip, the silence of the hallway still echoing behind you. At the far end of the room, a slender figure is perched at a desk, hunched over an ancient tome. Kaelen looks up, his expression guarded, his eyes like chips of ice. There is no warmth in his gaze, only a simmering hostility. As he looks at you, the air grows unnaturally heavy, charged with a static tension that makes the hair on your arms stand up. He shuts the book with a definitive thud. "If I were you... I'd ask for a new roommat…