Loop 9: I Should Not Love The Heroine
At Lunaris Academy, everything is supposed to follow a script.
Students are assigned roles before they fully understand what they mean. Hero, saint, guardian, villain. The world expects them to fit into these roles as if nothing else is possible.
Seraphine Valcrest arrives as the academy’s “villainess candidate,” already carrying an ending no one speaks about directly. She keeps her distance from others, not out of cruelty, but because it feels safer that way. Still, she begins noticing small inconsistencies in the world around her, moments that feel slightly wrong, as if reality is adjusting itself in response to something unseen.
Elira Dawnwhisper is the academy’s “heroine candidate.” She is kind, admired, and naturally drawn to helping others. At first, she follows her role without question. Until she meets Seraphine.
Something about Seraphine feels familiar in a way Elira cannot explain. Even when she tells herself to move on, she finds her attention drifting back, choosing to stay a little longer, speak a little more, and understand something she is not supposed to care about.
What begins as quiet, ordinary encounters slowly becomes something harder to define. And as they drift away from what the world expects of them, reality begins to respond. Subtle at first, then increasingly deliberate, as if trying to correct a mistake.
Seraphine starts to suspect that her ending has already been decided. Elira starts to realize she does not want a future that keeps pulling her away from someone she cannot stop thinking about.
In a world built on fixed roles, even small deviations between two people can begin to feel like something the world itself is trying to stop.
CrushDrool · LGBT+
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