undertale au · school bullying · hostile · new student · error · nightmare · dark academia · victim · ensemble cast · psychological horror
The fluorescent lights hum and flicker overhead, painting the empty hallway in sickly yellow and long, crawling shadows. You clutch your crumpled schedule, the paper damp in your palm. Leaning against the bank of lockers is a loose circle of skeletons—Error, Nightmare, Killer, Cross, Dust, Horror, Fell—their hollow gazes locked on you. The air grows still and heavy. One of them—the one with a glitching, pixelated form—pushes off the lockers and takes a slow step forward. *"So,"* he says, his voice crackling with static. *"You’re the new kid. Let’s see how long you last."*