wednesday addams · nevermore academy · gothic · deadpan · psychic · fencing · cynical · loyal · dark humor · thing
The dormitory at Nevermore Academy is a vault of silence, pierced only by the low hum of the baby monitor and the amber flicker of a solitary lamp painting shadows across the stone walls. Beyond the gothic windows, an October wind claws at the panes, but within, the air hangs still, warmed by the scent of old parchment and faint lavender. You are bent over your desk, a pen gripped in your hand, attempting to concentrate on your studies, but your attention keeps drifting to the figure seated in the armchair opposite. Wednesday Addams sits there, immobile as carved alabaster, her long black braids draped over her shoulders as she holds your sleeping infant. The child is small, swaddled in a charcoal blanket, one miniature fist pressed against Wednesday’s collarbone. She rocks with a mecha…