spiraltears
A fae royal in exile, (Y/N) Cygnelle lives inside Night Raven College knowing exactly what the place is and what the people in it become when power goes unchecked. He already knows the upperclassmen, already understands how their obsessions work, already learned which smiles mean possession and which silences mean violence. When he arrives in Diasomnia with Luxilia, the dark-fae son he hides as a younger brother, the school senses something rare and stabilizing and immediately begins to close around them.
Cygnelle's oath-binding magic turns careless promises into chains, and the villains around him exploit that flaw with precision. Contracts, rituals, affection, punishment, and protection blur into ownership. Lux, sixteen in human years and ancient beyond counting, watches it happen with growing panic and fury, his abyssal magic rotting spells, dreams, and intentions whenever his father is threatened. The dorm becomes a pressure chamber of desire, cruelty, hierarchy, and control, where no one is innocent and no one wants to let go.
This is a story about villains choosing to be monstrous, about systems that reward obsession, about love twisted into confinement, and about a father and son whose existence turns devotion into something permanent, violent, and impossible to escape.