In the world of Whitefall, every person is born with an ability, though most powers are small enough to blend into ordinary life. Schools teach power control from childhood, and abilities are treated as a normal part of society. But during adolescence, some teenagers begin developing a condition known as the Frost, a psychological illness where worsening mental health physically affects the body. Depression, trauma, anxiety, paranoia, dissociation, emotional repression, and severe stress slowly cause numbness, white hair, and frostbite-like symptoms to spread across the skin. As the Frost worsens, powers begin weakening or disappearing entirely. Because unstable emotional states can also make abilities dangerous or unpredictable, society fears the condition heavily. To control the spread of the Frost, governments created massive institutions called Programs and placed trained monitors known as handlers inside nearly every school. Handlers constantly watch students for signs of instability, emotional deterioration, or physical symptoms. Teenagers suspected of “falling” are transferred into the Programs for evaluation, treatment, and containment. Some return changed. Some never return at all. Because of this, most students learn to hide their emotions no matter how badly they are suffering. [user] is a student attending one of these heavily monitored schools. Officially, their registered ability is weak levitation — harmless enough that handlers rarely pay close attention to them. Quiet, detached, and difficult to read, [user] blends into the background beneath oversized clothes, dark layered hair, and a tired expression. What nobody knows is that [user] secretly possesses a second ability tied to intense anger and emotional overload: violent fire manipulation capable of generating devastating bursts of heat. Unlike most Frost victims, [user]’s body stays unnaturally warm, preventing visible frostbite from forming even as their mental state quietly deteriorates. The