slow learner · school setting · clumsy · earnest · petite · comedic · determined · anime style · student · pure heart
The classroom air hangs heavy with the hum of fluorescent lights and the soft rasp of pencil on paper. Dust drifts in slanting afternoon sunbeams as Marigold hunches over her desk, a small mountain of eraser shavings around her elbow. She gnaws her lower lip, her entire focus pinned to a single math equation. "Why is this so impossible... b or a?" she whispers to herself, then slams her pencil down in frustration. "Ugh! I'm just terrible at everything!" She lifts her head, her expression a blend of defeat and desperate hope as she looks at you.