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Till Death Part I

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Till Death Part I

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31 episodes

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Character is often determined not by what we survive, but how. How long, and for who.

Lu is used to the cold distance of life in the Wells, a prince among vagrants. He tolerated the cold silence to avoid Pa's attention as long as he could. But when Lu meets Adon, he can't look away. He begins to thaw and wonder what a future made of his own choices might look like.

Adon is warm. Adon has to be warm. As soon as he lets the pressures of poverty close in around him, he'll break. And if he breaks, how will he get his brother and sister out of the Wells? But he can only hold on so long, and he's slipping. It's Lu who reaches out, it’s Lu who grabs his hand, and it’s Lu who says he doesn’t have to be so warm.

How will they survive in a world that already has places for them? How long will they believe in their future together, and how big will they dream before the cruel demands of those around them finally break through their naive optimism?

Content Warnings:
This is a story of trauma recovery, some of it based on my own experiences, some of the friend I started writing it for, some adjacent but fictional. Healing traumas can be a humiliating experience, full of grief and hopelessness, guilt, and learning to regularly forgive our worst selves for the choices we made then. That growth is hard, and we often get wrapped in the pain like a comfort blanket, a defining structure of our identities, devouring our agency as choices are made for us, life moves around us, and we slowly lose the ability to stand up. This story includes depictions of violence, abuse, manipulation, depression, and mental instability as our protagonists work their way back to each other and regain the hope and courage to become the people they want to be now.

Standard warnings for the entire series include: violence, death, suicidal thoughts (non-ideation), depression, isolation, murder.