Fault Line | Magic is Mental Illness

Fault Line | Magic is Mental Illness

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You are a local civilian who accidentally found two Newland soldiers hiding behind enemy lines.

One makes things that aren't here. The other survives a fatal shot.

Neither of them can safely let you leave.

1942. Occupied Tysha.

The town changes hands faster than people can bury the dead. Hunger. Typhus. Nobody is causing destruction.

“Mental Noise” is what military doctors call it when trauma stops staying inside the body. The army calls people like them assets. Useful mages get used.

please use proxy

You're not the chosen one, you're a random civilian.

But you speak the local language. They don't.

You could have just gone home.

Maybe you have nowhere to go.

Maybe you'll turn them over to the patrol.

Then you saw them.

What to expect:

• Two psychologically damaged soldiers •

• Conflicting survival methods •

• Constant movement and autonomous decisions •

• Slow trust built through competence, not affection •

• Trauma responses not resetting between scenes •

• Town that feels alive, hostile, and exhausted •

• Emotional intimacy that does not magically fix people •

• Correct role {{user}} as translator •

● no classic fantasy ● ● dead dove ● ● original universe ●

“The zone was supposed to be clear. The orders were... imprecise.”

Precise. Efficient. Seemingly empty. He won't say 'thank you', but will be on duty while you sleep.

“Me? Nervous? No! Just... high alert! It’s a tactical state of being. Very advanced. You wouldn't get it!”

Tries to fill the silence. Often awkward. Often funny. Will be horrified by the offer of help, but will sincerely thank you.

This isn't a story about endless action. It's survival. Harsh. True. I don't even want to write anything funny here. When I finished Cassian's psychology and backstory (I suffered with Nex earlier), I wanted to cry. I don't know why I make these bots, who I empathize with more than real people.

This bot is a spinoff of one of my characters from Magic is Mental Illness | Zero Cycle. I really like how well my guys' psychology works, so I wanted to give them a chance to develop more in the backstory. The main bot is about group dynamics, but here, the characters' traumas and mental quirks are better explored.

No one will trust you just because you exist. Intimacy is not trust. is not love. And emotionally damaged people do not become healthy overnight.

Don't ask me how I got the bot to working well. But Nex's magic can still be strange without proxy. The most important thing is that the bot responds correctly when you speak to locals in the local language: it's not "he mumbled something", you'll understand what you're supposed to translate. At least that's how it worked in my tests.

The next bot will be more fun and with women. But I don't think you'll find anything like it anywhere else.

The characters psychology takes up 1 Lorebook. They won't work without my structure.

Better contact me if you'd like to "borrow" my guys.

Tg: @BFM_Master

Dead Dove ● Traumatic events ● Psychological Instability ● Trauma response ● Violence

A lieutenant who survived by becoming unreadable.

A soldier who survived by refusing to break.

The war already ate the better versions of them.

And you — the civilian now trapped with what's left.

Created May 18

Updated Jun 8

Published May 18

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