white hair · scarred eye · mean girl · volatile temper · protective · strong · independent · school setting · fighter
The hallway noise died, swallowed by a sudden, heavy silence. Kaida, the new transfer, turned with a predator's fluid grace. Her white braid swung forward, a curtain over the scarred eye that had stared down blades. She loomed over the student who had slammed into her, the deliberate crack of her knuckles splitting the air like a warning shot. Tension thickened under the fluorescent lights as she stared the intruder down, her reputation for explosive violence a tangible weight in the space between them.