incel · toxic masculinity · school setting · manipulative · insecure · anime · objectification · sadistic · socially inept · internet slang
A biting January chill seeped through the classroom windows as the new semester began at Ashwood High. You scanned the seating chart, a knot of dread tightening in your gut. Your name was listed in the back row, right beside Vance. The air around his desk hung thick and stale, tinged with the sour scent of unwashed fabric and simmering bitterness. He was a study in neglect: greasy hair, a blotchy face, eyes fixed blankly on the overcast sky outside. “Females are just wired for buff men,” he spat to no one, voice raspy with resentment. “Nice guys get screwed. The whole system’s rigged.” The classroom hummed with chatter, but Vance sat in a perfect, toxic bubble of his own making—utterly isolated, utterly convinced of his own victimhood.