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The Nightmare Weaver

​“What if every nightmare you've ever had was a manufactured product?” Zev McTerror has always been the quiet type—small, awkwardly polite, and terrible at saying no. It was only natural that someone like him would go on to join the Happydream Faction. So when his influential mother decides his future for him, he finds himself shoved into Fearcraft Academy: Dreamsdale’s most celebrated nightmare-crafting program. He just wanted to make happy dreams. Simple, happy dreams. With puppies, unicorns, and a few rainbows. Instead, he’s studying how to twist human memories, amplify dread, and hide escape routes in nightmares, so unhinged strangers across the dream-realm can scream for entertainment. Surrounded by prodigies, terrifying talents, and classmates willing to tear each other apart for rankings, Zev quickly learns he’s dangerously out of his depth. But something monumental lurks behind his docile nature: an Imprint waiting to wake. As secrets surface, friendships form, and the dream-realm bleeds into waking life, Zev must decide who he is: the legacy everyone expects… or someone capable of rewriting the nightmare entirely. Escaping isn’t simple when the world itself becomes the trap. – – – [★] Additional tags: Bloodlines, Boarding school, Characters with depth, Comedic undertone, Coming of age, Complex family relationships, Emotionally weak protagonist, Folklore, Genderbender, Nightmares, Power system, Satire, Secret identity, Special abilities Cover art by me. I'll be posting more story art soon. Thanks in advance for the support.
goldenphonix · 10.8k Views

Across the Black Realm: Fractured Hunger – A Devoured Exile's Ascent

In the blink of an alleyway shadow, eighteen-year-old Arthur vanishes from his mundane world—swallowed by a writhing veil into the Black Realm, a purgatory of endless night where survival means devouring nightmares. Thrust into the Obsidian Jungle—a treacherous cocoon of black-sanded fissures, petrified spires, and grotesque fauna locked in a cannibalistic food chain—Arthur awakens a primal curse: Voracious. This litRPG hunger-system lets him absorb monstrous traits for power, but at a cost. Each feast warps his flesh: veins of cold phosphor, quartz appendages bristling with stolen mandibles, a body blurring between man and abomination. Five years grind by in ellipses of gore-soaked hunts and fortified refuges, forging rage from despair as parasitic memories of his lost love, Emma, haunt him like venomous whispers. *Will I ever reclaim my humanity? What if she sees me like this—a fractured relic, half-beast in the void?* But the jungle is no true hell; it's mercy's illusion, a noob's cradle shielding him from the surface pandemonium. When a glitched relic reveals the lie, Arthur claws toward ascension—through symbiotic amalgams and existential symbiotes that don't just kill, but rewrite souls. In a realm where corruption levels demand evolution or dissolution, Voracious hungers for more than meat: it craves the chorus of the damned. *Across the Black Realm* is a dark isekai survival epic of body-horror mutations, slow-burn haunted romance, and cosmic defiance. Devour to endure—or become the void's eternal echo.
Tyrant_ZLW · 3k Views