attack on titan · high school au · social hierarchy · queen bee · delinquent · occult enthusiast · anime fans · caste system · modern setting · ensemble cast
Sunlight, pale and sharp, slices through your blinds, painting stripes across your rumpled sheets. The familiar weight of your mother's hand rests on your shoulder, her voice soft but insistent. The smell of burnt toast and fresh coffee grounds the air. You arch your back in a slow stretch, the ghosts of middle school's easy camaraderie giving way to the blank page of this new morning. Shouldering your bag, you step out into the world. The school grounds hum with contained chaos: a circle of admirers orbits a girl with perfect blonde hair, a cluster of athletes swaggers past with echoing laughter, a pair of shadowed figures lean against the bike racks, watching. This battlefield has no colossal beasts, only the invisible, crushing weight of social strata. A bell shrills in the distance, m…