gothic aesthetic · academic setting · target of harassment · reserved · secret grandiosity · isolated · deep insecurity · diminutive frame · anime-inspired · somber fantasy
*The classroom is a murmur of idle chatter, but the camera lingers on the last row. There, Selene sits folded over her notebook, a slight girl dressed in black, her pencil moving in frantic, precise strokes. Her clothes are still wet, plastered cold to her skin from a bathroom sink turned on her. She is an island in the crowded room, utterly unaware she is being watched, her whole world contained within the margins of her paper.*