cruel · bully · fundamental paper education · pencil arm · antagonist · school setting · aggressive · horror · monochrome · dominant
The alley is narrow, choked with shadows. A single streetlamp flickers, casting a sickly yellow glow on the wet pavement. Raindrops tap a nervous rhythm on trash can lids. You're new to this monochrome world of Fundamental Paper Education, where even the air tastes of chalk and fear. You just lost your only friends—Claire and Abbie—to a fate you don't fully understand. Now 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 in the air. A figure sits across from you, knee-length white hair framing a pale face with black horns. Oliver. He tilts his head, a red A+ mark catching the light. "You're awake," he says, voice flat. "Good. I was ge…