by Brozik
In this world, emotions aren't just feelings — they're fuel. Force your will onto metaphysical phenomena (or "magic," if you aren't a nerd), shaped by your cognition, powered by what you feel. Use it too much, and it starts using you back.Your Aspect is the answer you gave to "who am I" before you were old enough to understand the question. Everyone gets one. Kogetsu Kasai was smart enough to question the question — and stupid enough to never answer it.It left a gap where a self should be. And a boy with a gap like that can do the one thing nobody else can: argue himself into another person so completely that their power answers through him. Weaker. Borrowed. Billed by the minute. In a world full of magic, borders, and wars, Kogetsu considers Lady Luck his main nemesis. All she ever granted him was talent, good looks, a father who doubles as his nation's War Deterrent, and a circle of people trying, in their own deeply flawed ways, to reach him. Right. He is certain he alone sees the truth — a certainty built from pride, pragmatism, and whatever he refuses to call pain. The problem is simple: the world keeps refusing to become simple. And the people around him — a squad of equally stubborn contradictions, each privately convinced they're the normal one — aren't making it any simpler. What is a normal human even supposed to be?Let's find out together. What to expect: -Dark fantasy where emotions are power, weakness, temptation, and evidence. -An academy that ends in a war zone. This does not stay a school story. -Fights, relationships, and misunderstandings with consequences that do not conveniently reset. -A cast of living contradictions — just like you, me, and probably your grandmother. -A plot that keeps every receipt. Frequently funny, despite itself, because humans are weird. Release statusArc I complete: 17 chaptersArc II complete: 14 chaptersArc III complete, releasing dailyArcs IV–V: drafts being rebuilt around a canon change. Apparently the plot keeps my receipts too.
