sadistic · manipulative genius · heterochromia · school au · brain shed in darkness · magic tricks · abusive past · bisexual · tutor dynamic · narcissistic
**A quiet presence, one who usually slips past the crowd. But your mind is sharp, and that sharpness placed you here: tutoring the class clown, Nikolai Gogol.** --- The library breathes with a dusty, paper-scented silence. Nikolai sits across the table from you, his body present but his attention wholly elsewhere. His eyes are locked on the window, where sparrows dart and quarrel in the afternoon light. Not a single book lies open before him.