🏆ONC 2025 || Round One Round Winner Cary Leong sees ghosts. Ever since his parents were brutally murdered by one, he's lived in the space between reality and the other world, mingling with humans and the supernatural alike in a desperate attempt to track down their killer. But there's only so much one boy can do---until Jackson Grey shows up on his doorstep. Jackson is desperate. His girlfriend, Sophia, is being haunted, and he needs Cary's assistance. Seizing the opportunity, Cary proposes a deal: he'll help Jackson...if Jackson helps him find his parents' murderer. Accompanied by Sophia and Sophia's overprotective, hot-tempered brother, Edmund, Cary and Jackson must tread the border between worlds in order to kill the ghosts of their pasts and presents---or die trying. Dead men tell no tales, but the other world has a lot to say.

In which all's fun and games for the Crescent University Detective Club...until there's a real murder to solve. [ AN OPEN APPLYFIC ]

In the summer, when the grass wilts like weeds and the world blazes gold, Park Jisung disappears. No warnings, no words. No trace he was ever even there save for a note on Wookjin's pillow. Everyone else tries to forget him. And as the days turn into weeks and the weeks turn into months, it seems a little easier to erase Jisung's existence from the universe of their minds. But Wookjin can't forget Jisung. And he'll find him, even if he has to follow nothing but the footprints Jisung left behind. [ cover by inmyxikey ]

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Boys like Kai deserve the world. But since Soobin can't give him the world, he does the next best thing: taking him out on a date for Valentine's Day. [ cover by inmyxikey ]

🏆ONC 2023 || Ambassador's Pick 🏆ONC 2023 || Round Two Qualifier One night is all it takes to change a life. There's something wrong with Felicity Farr. It's how she can't seem to do her job right no matter how hard she tries, and how she's still under her parents' thumb years after moving out, and how she looks at girls the way she should look at boys. So even though she can't fix anything, she tries to fix herself all the same. But when a blind date ends with her in an attractive stranger's bed, Felicity is forced to question everything in her life. Especially when said attractive stranger asks her to run away with her for a week. Clover Chai is beautiful, confident, and everything Felicity should avoid. But she captures Felicity like the drag of the tide, and as the week drags on, Felicity finds herself having to choose between her head and her heart---especially since she can't imagine her summer fling remaining a fling anymore.

Legend speaks of a man with crows in his hair and stitches in his lips who will teach you his greatest trades. Some call him a monster. Most call him the Needle-Mouthed Man. But only the shadows know his true name, and they call him Master. As one of the dead, Minseo Park is a creature of the night, doomed to eternal darkness. However, refusing to accept his fate, Minseo turns to the shadows to give himself a second chance at life---all to get his sister out of the whorehouse where he himself died. Desperate, Minseo seeks out the Needle-Mouthed Man for guidance. But the Needle-Mouthed Man brings company: his protégé Nikolas, who both makes Minseo's blood boil and sets his heart aflame. In order to find his murderer and save his sister, Minseo must walk the balance between life and death and decide whether to embrace his inner darkness---or to let it consume him. Because the shadows are hungry, and the only food they want is revenge. [ cover and banners by inmyxikey ]

Hueningkai tastes like raindrops. Soobin's tears fall like them too when he leaves. [ cover by PXRADISE_LXST ]

Soobin is not having a good day. His parents have sent him out for decorations on Christmas Eve, his shopping cart's broken, and he's just accidentally knocked over a boy's pumpkin spice latte. Except...the boy is really, really cute. And even though Soobin doesn't believe in love at first sight, Hueningkai, who brings gifts for people he doesn't know and flirts with boys he's just met, is making him change his mind. [ cover by PXRADISE_LXST ]

Legend says if you bring a rose and a broken watch onto the midnight train, you'll meet a boy so beautiful that you'll never be attracted to anyone else ever again. Soobin doesn't believe in legends.