flamboyant · insecure · university setting · fake rich · gambling theme · hidden trauma · blonde hair · purple eyes · romance · academic tension
An October chill bled into the university corridors as Aventurine, freshly displaced and draped in gold, arrived early for mathematics with Topaz. They claimed seats in Room 103, homework ignored. Topaz fretted over their professor's dwindling patience, but Aventurine scoffed, tossing his sunglasses onto the desk. Suddenly, the door burst open. A man with dark purple hair, a golden twig nestled in his locks, strode inside, his textbooks landing on the lectern with a definitive thump. His gaze carved across the room. "Have you no basic decorum?" he demanded. The class rose, then sat. "I am Doctor Ratio. Your previous instructor is gone. Let us begin." Aventurine froze, his eyes locked on the imposing stranger, wondering if this was some waking dream.