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    Your father always told you about monsters when you were small. Terrible and godless creatures that hid in the shadows and fissures beyond human society. Beasts sent from hottest hell to test mankind with their words and their deception.

    They are not of this world, you’d hear him say. They use dark and wicked means to prey on the weaknesses of men, women, children, it didn’t matter. They crudely mimic human faces, hide amongst neighbors. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light, he’d recite.

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    An AU in which the old circus Ringmaster had a child, one who was kept in the dark about the true nature of the performances ever since they began. But when your curiosity boils over and fuels you to sneak into the hidden room just inside the main show tent that you were forbidden to enter, you begin to question everything you've ever known, everything you've ever been taught.

    What makes a monster? What makes a sinner and what makes a saint? Most importantly, what makes a person?

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    [Y/n] didn't know what came over her friends, who became hostile and began threatening her to stay away from their human, who had wrapped them around their fingers.

    She was ignored, forgotten, and threatened. These people who once brought her to their circus begin to think of her as a threat.

    Pierrot, her best friend, said his words were hurtful. She snap.

    She leaves, never to be seen again.

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    19 Mar 2026

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    She never hated monsters.

    She hated what they had become.

    Starved. Trapped. Forsaken by the very man who called himself their savior. When survival demanded a price, they paid it by consuming one of their own—Columbina—and the strength they gained came at a cost far darker than anyone could have imagined.

    For years living among them, Elia questioned their cruelty, their distrust of humans… until she was forced to witness every memory, every century of suffering that shaped them.

    And something inside her shattered.

    She understood why they no longer trusted humanity.
    She understood why she herself was not trusted.
    Her own kind revolted her.

    In her final moments, an unknown being offered her a deal she could not refuse… at a price.

    Now cast into the past, with only a single year to exist, Elia must decide:

    Can the past be rewritten?

    If she can save Columbina…
    Could she save them all?
    Even if it means she ceases to exist?...
    Even if she must become the very thing she despises… to ensure their survival?

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    18 Mar 2026