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Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar

The Miss Americana

Liliana “Lily” Elizabeth Armstrong endured a life of abuse and exploitation by her parents, leaving her with a profound lack of self-esteem. On her birthday, a lavish affair was organized to showcase their wealth and social status, with her sister Athanasia being the undisputed star of the evening. To escape the suffocating attention, Lily retreated to the sprawling gardens of their opulent Newport estate. During her solitude, she encountered Duke Henry, a penniless British Duke visiting America specifically to secure a wealthy bride. He was genuinely captivated by Lily’s genuine, unassuming nature and quiet charm, falling for her authentic self rather than the superficial facades of the Gilded Age. However, due to her ambitious parents’ machinations, who were desperate to secure a titled match and believed Athanasia was the more suitable candidate, Lily’s name was mistakenly associated with her sister’s when Henry sent his formal marriage proposal. Tragedy struck when Athanasia went missing and was presumed dead while en route to Henry’s ancestral home in England. As a gesture of familial comfort (and perhaps a desperate attempt to salvage the ducal connection), Lily was sent to Henry to offer solace. It was then that Henry realized the grave mistake with the sisters’ names. He understood he had proposed to the wrong woman, but the true challenge began as Lily, so deeply ingrained with her own worthlessness, simply couldn’t comprehend that he could possibly desire her instead of her “perfect” sister.
ruangrrit · 1.5K Views

A War for a Place to call Home: First blood

Sarus Fortress is a titanic bastion of stone, steel, and sorrow—an ever-expanding bulwark built by the Bullard Empire to encircle the accursed island at the world's end. Beneath that island’s ashen skies lie the shattered hearts and skulls of three dead gods, whose corpses still fester with divine malice. From them crawl endless horrors—monstrosities birthed from madness and spite—that claw relentlessly at the walls of reality, seeking to unmake all mortal life. To sustain the fortress and fund the eternal war, the empire long ago enacted the Tithe: a grim tradition that claims lives in lieu of taxes, conscripting men, women, and children alike into the grinding teeth of its war machine. Here, survival depends not only on strength, but on adaptation. Soldiers wield heirlooms that are passed through blood , channel blessings from careless gods, command alien spirits, and harness Mori—the lingering essence of the dead. Through the Bonding ritual that is performed by the followers of the great unison the graft the flesh of the enemy onto their own in desperate bids for power is common place . And yet, despite all this, the dead gods’ corruption spreads. This is the tale of five conscripts claimed by the Tithe—five souls bound not by blood or banner, but by the absence of home. A salt miner who murdered his kin to claim their mori-born magic. A disgraced noblewoman clawing her way back from exile with charm, spite, and ambition. A glass-winged pixie the size of a thimble, who named herself after her favorite animal and chose to follow humans out of love. A disillusioned blessed Apothecary who seeks a purpose as he lost his. A Veteran soldier born into the Fortress who has undergone the Bonding more times than she can remember, all to live up to the memories of her parents. Together, they are thrown into the gullet of war not as saviors, but as offerings. Whether they will survive—or change the shape of the world in their struggle—is a story still unfolding beneath the an unending sky.
Duckspuck · 4.3K Views
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