Stasis-Graft: Last Wish
In a world ruled by monarchs and noble houses, where monsters roam beyond the torchlight, Yuri grows up knowing none of it. His childhood is warm, ordinary, and unremarkable in the best way. But had another plan...
The losses come one after another. Each one digs a little deeper. Grief, after enough of it, stops feeling like grief — it goes cold, quiets down, becomes something you can pick up and use. Yuri picks it up. He decides to become the strongest, as if strength were the same thing as silence, as if power could drown out the dead.
Yet, along his bloodstained journey, he encounters a fleeting light — a presence that softens the darkness consuming him and reminds him that even ruined hearts can still feel warmth. For a moment, the world no longer feels like a graveyard. But fate is merciless.
Another loss. Another shattering. He goes back to revenge because it's the only road he still knows.
When it's over — when he's done, when the thing he hunted is finally dead — he discovers what most people who chase revenge discover too late: "there's nothing on the other side of it."
The silence after is worse than the rage that got him there.
So he stops. Withdraws. Wanders.
He replays everything. The choices he didn't make, the words he swallowed, the people he failed. He knows it's useless. He does it anyway.
Then a boy shows up.
And somewhere in the sight of him, Yuri remembers a promise he made to someone who's gone — to see a world past all of this. Past war, past loss, past the life he's been living.
He starts walking again. Not for revenge. Not to prove anything.
To keep a promise, A promise he gave to his loved one.
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Note: Stasis-Graft is a shared universe created by the authors Apollo Thornrose, Ariel Belsky, and Peace. Any work not officially approved by the creators will be considered fan work. Any individual or group falsely claiming a work to be official without proper authorization may be subject to appropriate action.