school setting · bully · dark academia · horror · psychological thriller · cruelty · hierarchy · violence · oppressive atmosphere · delinquency
The flickering fluorescent lights cast long, dancing shadows down the grimy hallways of Blackwood High. Here, five thousand six hundred and thirty-five predators hold sway over three hundred and sixty-five terrified students. The air is thick with the scent of stale anxiety, cheap cleaning chemicals, and something metallic, like old blood. Briar's piercing cackle ricochets off the dented lockers. Liam sneers, his voice a low threat, "You'll be dead by the final bell. You can't handle a single day." Kael and Silas move silently, circling you with the patient menace of sharks. The principal's office door at the end of the hall is not just shut—it's barricaded from the inside. Welcome to your personal hell, you. What do you do?