LilSquish94
In a world where art becomes agony, the marked are condemned.
When tattoo ink began to writhe beneath skin like living flame, no one understood the horror that would follow. What began as discoloration-black tendrils and crimson webs spreading beyond tattoo borders-quickly became a global catastrophe. As the ink consumes its hosts, victims suffer excruciating deaths, their bodies a canvas of grotesque colors.
The unmarked establish "pure zones," barricading themselves from the infected.
Politicians strip the tattooed of their rights, declaring them walking biohazards. Street executions become commonplace-the unmarked claiming divine purpose in purging the "self-marked sinners."
Then comes a miracle that shatters everything: a heavily infected woman gives birth to an unmarked child. Before authorities can seize them, mother and daughter vanish into the night.
Now a desperate hunt unfolds across a fractured society. Government scientists want the child for experimentation. Religious zealots proclaim her a messiah. Underground tattooed resistance fighters seek her as their salvation. And her mother will kill anyone who tries to take her.
In a world divided by ink and blood, one child carries either the cure-or the final evolution of humanity's most artistic plague.