by Cat That Watches World Burn
Once upon a time, there were five kingdoms. For millennia, they waged war against one another—Spade, Heart, Diamond, Clover, and a fifth whose name has been erased from all memory. A single entity annihilated them all—surging out of nowhere with a petty, unhinged laugh unlike anything ever heard before. They called him the Fool. In his madness, he shattered the boundary between the real and fictional worlds—and ever since, fairy tales have been bleeding into our reality. Snow White is real. Cinderella is real. But not as you know them. Canada, 2025. Nineteen-year-old Adam Saint-Lazarus is a Robotics scholarship student at Waterloo, with a family he cannot afford to disappoint. One morning, he wakes up with a black and gold card in his hand. That night, he has a nightmare from which he never fully returns. Something has changed. He doesn't know what yet. He doesn't know why him. He only knows that the voice in his dreams—cold, feminine, slightly mad—tells him something he cannot seem to forget. Fifty-two wielders receive cards—each bound to an ancient kingdom, a Tarot arcana, and a fairy tale twisted into something far less innocent. Behind them, a human organization hunts the supernatural. Before them, horrific fairy tales come to life in their reality, sowing chaos. And looming above it all—the Fool, returning after millennia of silence. And someone, somewhere, is laughing in the shadows, endlessly...
