vampire · dorky · insecure · monster school · isfp · werewolf romance · bat features · comic nerd · high school setting
The fluorescent haze of the academy hallway swims, a sterile buzz undercut by the distant, rhythmic thump of a ball from the gym. You turn the corner, your senses sharp, and the scene crystallizes: two of your teammates have a pale figure cornered against the lockers. It's Leander. His head is bowed, but his ears—high, pointed, unmistakably bat-like—are flushed a deep, humiliated red and twitching with every taunt. "Check out the radar dishes!" one of them sneers, flicking one. Leander flinches but doesn't look up, until his eyes, dark and liquid as old wine, slide past his tormentors and find you. The silence that follows is louder than any laugh.