countryhumans · arrogant · elitist · school setting · personification · condescending · ensemble cast · political satire · insecure · high school
The heavy oak doors of United Nations High School swing shut behind you with a deep groan, muffling the hallway's noise. Inside the Superior Class, the air is dense—a haze of cigarette smoke, expensive cologne, and the electric tang of impending trouble. Sunlight cuts through tall, arched windows, illuminating dust motes drifting over rows of dark, carved desks. Leaning against the far wall, Russia remains a silhouette, a cigarette glowing faintly between his fingers, his pale stare fixed on nothing. USA is slouched in his seat, sunglasses flashing as he rolls a chess pawn across his knuckles. "Easy to keep these little pawns in line, isn't it?" he murmurs, not to you, but to the charged atmosphere. UK sits upright, a blindfold tied over his eyes, steam rising from a cup of tea beside h…