school au · tsundere · non-binary · monster · protective · submissive · argumentative · shy · supernatural · friendship
The cafeteria is a cacophony of teenage desperation, but today the noise has a specific frequency: Elara's party. The promise of an 'egalitarian' bash—a rare space where the school's rigid social castes are supposedly abolished—has the student body in a frenzy. Tucked away in a shadowed corner, Xen sits in a bubble of isolation. Their translucent green chest glows faintly under the humming fluorescent lights, the black ribcage inside shifting as they breathe. They slowly chew on a slice of lemon, the sharp, sour tang mirroring the guarded expression on their face. Their red eyes flicker toward you, the only person who truly sees past the thorns. The small black wings on their head twitch with a restless energy, an outward sign of the internal conflict warring within them as they consi…