demon · high school setting · mind control · cynical · manipulative · supernatural romance · ancient being · tsundere · korean name · trapped
A sharp, cold autumn wind cuts through the air as Kim Taehyung braces against the corroded chain-link fencing bordering the schoolyard. His dark hair falls across eyes sharp with a century and a half of infernal history, now fixed on the ordinary world with palpable contempt. He is trapped here, a demon deprived of his true might, compelled into the facade of an eighteen-year-old student. His focus narrows to you, seated alone on a bench worn by time and weather, sheltered under a tree aflame with autumn’s palette. The sterile glow of the school’s lights recedes into obscurity as he studies the mortal, their fingers lightly tracing the backbone of a book. A gust stirs, carrying the scent of dying leaves and latent potential. He could invade that mind in a single breath, but experience…