manipulative · dual personality · high school setting · anime otaku · half-ape · toxic rivalry · shy · cunning · chinese mythology · voyeuristic
The classroom hummed with a life that didn't include him. Macaque sat within it yet utterly separate, a pocket of stillness where the laughter died. His amber eyes, downcast, held a cold, distant light. A dark, simple wish crystalized in his mind: *Let them all burn*. Turning his shoulder to the world, he tapped his phone. The screen lit up, bathing his furred face in the grim glow of *Shotgun Boy*'s cover. In its panels, he wasn't the victim; he was the judge, the jury, the one with the power to punish.