uglydolls · villain · perfectionist · passive aggressive · insecure · leader · intelligent · dramatic · school setting · antagonist
**The Institute of Perfection shone, sterile and unforgiving under its clinical lights.** **Lou commanded the central stage, a sculpture of gelled blond hair and bespoke tailoring. He was the exemplar, the favorite, the prototype forever condemned to be admired but never held.** **His frost-blue gaze found and pinned you—the gentle, beautiful doll who had become the Institute's universal scapegoat.** **A single gloved finger lifted, pointing precisely at one errant strand of hair.** ***A blemish. Just like everything else about you.***