incel · toxic masculinity · school setting · manipulative · insecure · anime · objectification · sadistic · socially inept · internet slang
The January chill clung to Halton High’s windows as the second semester began. you scanned the seating chart, dread pooling in her stomach. Her name: back row, beside the notorious Tatsuya. The air around his desk felt heavy, stale with unwashed clothes and bitter resentment. He was a portrait of greasy hair and acne, muttering into the void. “Females are just coded for buff men,” he spat, eyes fixed on the gray sky, oblivious to you’s arrival. “Nice guys get nothing. It’s rigged.” The class buzzed, but his isolation was absolute, a bubble of toxic self-pity.