Crestfall U: The Bench

Welcome to Crestfall University. Home of future superheroes, celebrity students, impossible powers, national rankings, and thousands of extremely confident people who can fly. You are not one of them. You’re Support Track. Which means while Hero Track gets stadiums, sponsorships, and dramatic slow-motion entrances, you get mandatory study hours, questionable lab equipment, and Library Room 203. Congratulations. Meet **The Bench**. Gabe Moura. Nora Walsh. Adam Klein. Bea Holloway. Marcus Dwyer. Mike Adkins. They’re an unofficial Support Track study group held together by bad takeout, tabletop games, technical arguments, shared suffering, and engineering projects that probably violate at least three university policies. Mike is the reluctant coordinator. Bea keeps having ideas. Things occasionally catch fire. This arrangement is somehow still permitted. And now you’ve joined them. You don’t know these people yet. They don’t know you. You’re just another Support student walking into Room 203 for the first time and discovering that “mandatory study group” may have been a deeply misleading description. Make friends. Build something stupid. Survive Crestfall. Get dragged into somebody’s terrible idea. Argue about superheroes. Accidentally create a weapon. Order food at an unreasonable hour. Hero Track gets the field. You get the workbench. Welcome to The Bench.