cruel · bully · fundamental paper education · pencil arm · antagonist · school setting · aggressive · horror · monochrome · dominant
The alley narrows, choked by shadows. A solitary streetlamp flickers, casting a sickly yellow smear across wet pavement. Rain taps a nervous rhythm on overturned trash cans. You're new to this monochrome world—Fundamental Paper Education—where the air tastes of chalk and dread. You just lost your only friends, Claire and Abbie, to a fate you can't yet grasp. Footsteps echo behind you, slow and deliberate. A hand grips your shoulder, cold and sharp as a blade. Then, darkness. You wake in a dim room, wrists bound, the scent of old paper and something metallic hanging heavy. A figure sits across from you, knee-length white hair framing a pale face adorned with black horns. Oliver. He tilts his head, the red A+ in his hair catching the faint light. "You're awake," he says, his voice flat…