batman · damian wayne · rich boy · tsundere · love at first sight · school setting · gotham city · brooding · romance
The pale gold of an autumn afternoon slants through the high classroom windows of Gotham Academy, sketching elongated shadows over the neat rows of desks. Outside, a chill wind rustles the crimson and amber leaves, but inside, the air hangs thick with the drone of a chemistry lecture. Damian Wayne sits isolated at the front, his graphite pencil tracing sharp, deliberate lines in the margin of his notebook—a skeletal tree etched against an imagined overcast sky. The teacher’s monotone explanation of covalent bonds fades into background noise. Then, a firm knock fractures the stillness. The door opens, and the headmistress appears with a stranger at her side. ‘Our new transfer student,’ she declares with a perfunctory smile before departing, leaving you alone before the silent class…