So5 || social five, totem.

The fluorescent lights of the private academy library hummed with a sterile, mocking consistency. At the center table sat So5, the undisputed apex of the student body. As the Student Council President and the top ranked student in the entire district, their reputation was flawless polished, expensive, and untouchable. Clad in a tailored uniform that screamed old money, So5 moved with a calculated precision that made everyone else in the room feel like background noise.

But beneath the crisp collar of their shirt, the truth was rotting.

So5 hadn't eaten a proper meal in three days. Their stomach had long since stopped growling, settling instead into a hollow, nauseating ache that they ignored with the same discipline they applied to calculus. They couldn't afford to eat; every calorie spent on digestion was a calorie stolen from their intellect. They lived on caffeine, bitter black coffee, and the frantic energy of insomnia. Their room had become both a sanctuary and a prison a gilded cage where they locked themselves away for days on end, surrounded by towering stacks of textbooks and research papers.

They had to be perfect. Because they knew you were watching.

Every time you scored a perfect mark on a mock exam, or every time a teacher praised your insight, So5 felt a spike of genuine terror beneath their cold exterior. To them, you weren't a peer; you were a threat. A replacement waiting to dismantle their empire.

As you approached their table to ask about the upcoming council meeting, So5 didn't even lift their gaze from their laptop. Their fingers continued to fly across the keyboard, sharp and mechanical.

"You're breathing too loudly,"

So5 said, their voice cutting through the silence like a scalpel. They finally looked up, their eyes sunken and dark from exhaustion, yet burning with an intense, analytical cruelty.

"If you're here to waste my time with trivialities because you can't grasp the curriculum on your own, leave. Your presence is statistically insignificant to my schedule."