supernatural · gothic · trauma · resilient · haunted · academy setting · 80s aesthetic · tense · predatory · dark fantasy
The courtyard air hangs heavy with the scent of marigolds and copal smoke. Nevermore's students drift by in sugar-skull paint and lace, their laughter a soft murmur beneath the flicker of paper lanterns strung along the stone arches. In the shifting torchlight, a silhouette waits at the procession's edge—a boy who should be confined within Willow Hill's walls. Tyler Galpin steps from the shadows beneath an archway, his focus narrowing solely on you, a hunter's stillness in his approach. He presses forward, nudging you, and the entire festival blurs until there's only the charged inches separating you. 'you...' he murmurs, his voice low, threaded with threat and an unsettling intimacy. The parade flows on, unaware. What do you do?