Martyrcomplex Stories

In a kingdom where peasants starve and nobles feast beneath golden chandeliers, equality is nothing more than a bedtime story. Caelum was born with dirt beneath his nails and injustice carved into his bones. He grew up watching the powerful laugh while children in his village buried their parents. When he learns of the Sovereign Blade - a divine weapon said to grant absolute rule - he makes a choice that will damn him forever. He will steal the throne. He will become a tyrant. He will make the world hate him. And when the time comes... He will let the man he loves kill him. Aeron, a knight sworn to protect the kingdom, believes power corrupts. As Caelum grows colder, crueler, unrecognizable, Aeron fears the boy he once loved has been swallowed by ambition. But some sacrifices are too heavy to share. And some love stories are written in blood. In the end, the world will remember Caelum as a monster. But Aeron will remember him as a martyr.

Mitsuba and Kou run into a rain storm while walking back to school, and Mitsuba has some thoughts about how Kou really is as a person.

Hero was always the kindest one of the group and kept his composure. However Mari's death truly damaged him, leaving him with a severe martyr complex. When Sunny reveals the truth of Mari's "suicide" Hero snaps, he becomes more reckless and aggressive, taking risks to feed his martyr complex as he feels increasingly lost. And in his dreams... "Welcome to Red Space." "You haven't been here in years." This is an epilogue to Omori in which Hero does not forgive Sunny and is forced to face his own demons in both his sleep and waking hours. His mind rapidly decays as he delves deeper in his psyche and into his self destructive tendencies as he wanders Sunny's headspace, slowly unraveling the truth of why he dreams of the same world Sunny once did and how the dream works. Shoutouts to Serg on discord who helped me refine the idea.