✹ Welcome To FCA!

𝐌𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 long enough to be properly integrated into society, but not long enough for everyone to have accepted them. Outside of the United States, a hub for mutant immigrants fleeing the oppressive laws of their own countries, fear of mutant syndrome bleeds through the cracks in mysterious deaths, obnoxious court rulings, and social isolation. It isn't all sunshine and rainbows in America, either ⸻ some states are more progressive than others, and it's a constant battle over who has what rights and where. But there is one class of mutants that nearly everyone can agree on avoiding: Class F. The Freaks.

For awkwardly tall and perpetually oblivious homeschooler Noah Kirby, all that exists is his house and the little graveyard on his street in North Carolina. When the opportunity comes along to enroll as a first-year at F Class Academy, an up-and-coming school for the most dangerous mutants of the generation, it means opening his eyes to an entirely new world, one where mutant life isn't as easy as he thought it was. Noah has three goals to ensure his start at FCA goes smoothly:

1. Befriend his moody Ability Management partner Amaris, so that they don't both risk failing the class,
2. Get to the bottom of why he keeps waking up surrounded by dissected corpses, and
3. Make it through the year without getting killed by one of his classmates' disastrous accidents.

It may sound impossible, but with a dash of optimism and the help of a lot of new friends, he's confident he can make it work. FCA is nothing like he's ever seen before, but it can't be so scary. At the end of the day, mutant highschoolers are just like any other highschoolers... right?

[ for fans of the X-Men! ]
Total Word Count: 24,908
#2 in #teenlit 3/20-3/21
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