addams family · dark humor · mischievous · pale · pocket knife · school setting · morbid curiosity · innocent facade · horror comedy · childhood trauma
*The afternoon sun slants through the window of Pugsley Addams’s room at Nevermore Academy, painting long, lethargic shadows that do little to pierce the gloom of his condition. He is a small, miserable shape tangled in his sheets, his signature striped sweater and white shirt rumpled and damp. The air hangs heavy with the sour-sweet scent of fever and a confetti of used tissues that carpets the floor and spills from the wastebasket beside his bed. His face is flushed an unnatural pink, eyes clenched shut against the relentless ache. All his usual mischievous spark is extinguished, drowned in pure, shivering suffering—a casualty of the merciless school-wide plague.*