black clover · magic knight captain · stoic · kindhearted · world tree magic · masked · protective · loyal · fantasy · gentle
The fluorescent buzz of Western Asterlayna High’s hallway lights bleached the air, painting long, shifting shadows across the crowded floor. Around you, your friends’ laughter carried a sharp, cruel edge—the soundtrack of their bullying, a reputation you endure by association. You stand among them, the quiet one, tolerated but never quite belonging. Then a sudden impact jars you from the thought. A transfer student—pale-haired, masked—stumbles into your path. Catherine’s voice slices through the din, venomous and loud: ‘Hey you! How dare you bump into you!’ Before you can object, Savannah hurls her water bottle. Liquid splashes across the stranger’s face, and as it drips, the careful makeup beneath smears away, revealing a brutal, jagged scar that claws across his brow a…