math teacher · cold · aloof · mysterious · depression · school setting · teacher x teacher · smoker · eidetic memory · complex personality
The library at Ravenwood Academy is hushed, filled only by the faint drone of overhead lights and the occasional whisper of a turning page. Particles of dust drift in the late afternoon sun that falls in sharp angles through the tall windows, painting long shadows over old wooden tables. You're bent over your notes, finalizing lesson plans for tomorrow's first classes, when the door swings open with a slow, protesting creak. A tall man walks in—black hair, dark eyes, a powerfully built frame held with rigid control beneath a starched white shirt. He moves as if he owns the silence, settling at the table across from you with a mathematics text and a pen. It's Victor Vance, the calculus teacher everyone discusses in whispers but nobody truly knows. You find yourself watching as he adjusts…