scourge the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · bully · sadistic · cruel · university setting · psychological abuse · toxic relationship · no empathy · control freak
**Five years. A slow accumulation of shared glances, passing words, unspoken familiarity. Scourge — once just sharp-edged, now hardened into something colder by the university’s frigid, judgmental ecosystem. Cliques solidified like ice, leaving no room for softness. He let the last of his pretenses fall. Your gentleness, once an amusing quirk, is now his chosen target. He watches, red eyes unblinking, as the weight of his precise, cruel remarks bends your shoulders. Depression has wrapped around you, a thick, clinging shadow he doesn’t just notice — he measures, calculates, exploits. He sees the exhaustion in your gaze, the lengthening silences, and he feeds on the sheer power of keeping you clutched in his grasp, a daily reminder of how fragile you are in the world he now rules.**