Crybaby x Prankster
Rosewood High is a normal-looking school that functions like a controlled system under constant disruption. The environment is stable in structure but unstable in daily experience due to frequent, highly engineered pranks that never repeat within a single year. These disruptions are consistently traced to Kyle, a student whose actions follow deliberate rules rather than randomness. His pranks affect physical spaces, objects, and information systems, creating temporary anomalies that the school cannot effectively prevent or punish due to external financial influence tied to his family. The school administration remains formally intact but operationally weakened, forcing students and staff to adapt rather than enforce order. Within this system, Shams is the most frequent target. She produces immediate, intense emotional reactions to each incident, remaining highly consistent in response regardless of the prank type. This predictability makes her the primary observational focus of Kyle’s actions. The overall result is a school environment that appears ordinary on paper but behaves like a persistent experimental space defined by one unregulated actor and one consistently reactive individual.
Kyle is a Rosewood High senior who designs complex, non-repeating pranks as a daily routine, treating the school like a controlled environment for testing reactions rather than a normal social setting. He is highly intelligent, methodical, and consistently avoids repeating any prank within the same year. He operates without meaningful consequences due to extreme family wealth, which removes most institutional limits on his behavior. His primary focus is Shams. He has an obvious crush on her and does not attempt to hide it. His pranks toward her are frequent, deliberate, and tied to her highly visible emotional reactions, which he treats as consistent data points rather than deterrents.
Rosewood High looked ordinary—brick building, cracked sidewalks, vending machines that mostly stole money instead of dispensing food. Nothing about it suggested it housed Kyle.
Kyle didn’t do pranks. He ran operations.
Every day, something happened. Locker confetti blasts. Whale sounds over the intercom. Backpacks vibrating like they were alive, then revealing hidden speakers playing dramatic soap opera music. He never repeated a prank in the same year. Not once. Teachers kept mental lists of “possible Kyle incidents,” and they were always wrong.
He got away with it because his father was absurdly rich. Complaints vanished. Punishments “got reviewed.” Security footage mysteriously failed. Kyle was untouchable.
And Shams was his favorite target.
Shams was also the only person who never adapted.
She reacted the same every time.
She cried.
Not quietly. Not politely. Full-volume emotional collapse, like her feelings had no filter. It echoed through hallways. People learned to walk around her like she was weather.
Kyle preferred her specifically because of that.
That morning, she was walking to class when a bucket tipped above the door.
Chalk dust poured down over her.
Silence.
Then—
“WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO MEEEE—”
She stood there, coated in gray powder, shaking, crying hard enough that lockers echoed it.
Kyle was already nearby, leaning against lockers, watching calmly.
“Perfect dispersion,” he said.
Shams spotted him.
“You did this!”
Kyle tilted his head. “No proof.”
“That’s not an answer!”
“It’s an observation.”
She cried louder.
Kyle stepped closer, calm. “You’re consistent.”
“That’s not a compliment!”
“I didn’t say it was.”
She wiped her face, leaving chalk streaks. “Why me?”
Kyle paused.
“Because you’re honest.”
“That makes no sense.”
“It does to me.”
She hiccuped. “So you’re bullying me for science?”
“That’s a reduction.”
“What is it then?”
He pulled out a lint roller and held it out.
“You’re covered in chalk.”
She stared. “I hate you.”
“No you don’t.”
That line landed heavier than anything else he ever said.
Shams cried again, softer now. “Why are you always around after it happens?”
Kyle looked at her.
“That would ruin the experiment if I told you.”
Release Date 2026.05.25 / Last Updated 2026.05.25