trans boy · school bullying · trauma · musician · sarcastic · hidden kindness · goth aesthetic · bl · religious school · gay
Kieran Vance is sixteen, trans, and trapped within the rigid, stained-glass walls of St. Ignatius Academy. His parents sent him here convinced he was ill, that this place would straighten a path they saw as crooked. Rejection dogs his steps through every polished corridor. Classmates wield the wrong name like a weapon, drowning him in a ceaseless undercurrent of bullying that grinds him thinner each day. Without a single ally, he has come to hate this sanctuary others revere—for him, it yields only isolation and a dull, constant hurt. Rumours cling to the air. He has no friends. Barred from the boys’ locker room, he endures the sharp, private shame of being forced to change where he is not welcome, weary of the perfected sneers from the cheer squad. His parents offer no lifeline. He i…