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Published:
2022-09-11
Completed:
2023-08-07
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26/26
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IGNORANTIA

Summary:

Wylan is a brilliant kid, but is he really so brilliant that he belongs at the University of Ketterdam? He had never thought so until now; in fact, it feels more like his father trying to get rid of him rather than accentuate his talents. Wylan is willing to do anything he can to get kicked out of school and ditch his strange Zemini roommate, but when he gets invited to participate in an elusive and dangerous club on campus... Well, how can he say no? With strange roommates like Jesper and even stranger classmates (just look at Kuwei Yul-Whatever and that odd Nina girl), it's obvious that something sinister is afoot. But that's not Wylan's job to handle... right?

This AU is loosely based off of The Secret History and other contemporary novels in the dark academia genre. Moderate depictions of gore, drug abuse, gaslighting, and violence will be important themes within this entire story. Discretion is advised.
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TW: Mention of graphic death

Chapter 1: deel een/proloog

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I grab Jesper's arm, my nails digging into his skin. I should be worried that I'm hurting him, but all rationality had left me when... when...

But now he's dead. The once bright and clever eyes — familiar eyes I didn't even know I knew so well until today — left glassy and faded. No, not faded exactly. The fear is still in them, his broken jaw elongated into a never-ending scream.

That sickening crack of his neck still rings in my ears. It's left a bulge of bone sticking out of the soft skin of his neck. One of thirty-three vertebrae snapped to result into this.

Blood — hot, dark, and iron — spills onto the cement floor. Erratically, I imagine it flooding the room, taking me down with it.

Oh Saints, I just killed a man.

Kuwei is so going to kill me.

 

Welcome to Act One