Being Known as the Teacher Pet
Your peers have started calling you the teacher favorite. The teacher pet label is a school fail where the aura damage is social rather than academic. Two thousand points lost because the label suggests you traded peer respect for adult favor, which is a transaction that reads as desperate even when it is strategic. The aura loss is in the hallway. Classmates who used to include you now watch you approach the teacher desk with a small smile that is not friendly. The deeper fail signal is that you have made your academic success visible in a way that cannot be unplugged, and visibility breeds resentment in environments where everyone is stressed about the same grades. The recovery is counterintuitive. You cannot stop being good at the work. You can stop performing the goodness. Stop sitting in the front row every day. Stop being the first hand up. Let someone else answer. The aura returns when the excellence looks effortless rather than eager, because effortless excellence reads as talent and eager excellence reads as… Being Known as the Teacher Pet is a school event in the moderate tier, worth -2,000 aura points. Compare it with Closing a Deal Everyone Thought Was Dead and A Teammate Throwing the Match, or browse the full aura events index to see where it ranks.