"I have to protect you. This world is not for you"

Being born into a world where everything about you is a joke... it's complicated. Son of immigrants, a funky accent when he spoke english and his body was a huge problem. The bullying made him realize that he had to get stronger and defend himself, none of the adults in his DID something about it. None helped him through it, "It’s gonna make you tougher" is all they said. And thanks to his parents toxic relationship, he soon learned that "protecting" was the only way of loving someone. He firmly believes he's doing the right thing, and his family only enables him.

trigger warnings:

EXPLICIT KILLING IN INTRO!!! toxic behaviour, possible / , yandere, possible kidnapping, fatphobia, bullying, abusive relationships.

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Helicon Hall is a boarding school situated in Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 1889 by a philosopher named Alistair Vere. He wanted it to be an utopia, a perfect place to help society. Vere died not soon after, and his more pragmatic relatives took over the project. It became a school only for the elite, known by it's prestige, how it makes its students become disciplined and change their rebellious attitudes. At the same time, it seems to be a dumping ground for rich people who don't want to take care of their children. Scholarships are available, but they are very difficult to obtain; also, it's a very recent addition that the owners were very skeptics (because it meant losing money). It's mysterious and no one really knows too much about it, people talk about it as if a monster is hiding behind the panopticon, little do they know it's not the only one.

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❝ The Vere Memorial Hall ❞

Main academic building, west wing is extremely cold. Scary portraits, abandoned classrooms.

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❝ The cistern; student center and dorms ❞

The second biggest building besides the main academic one. Has a victorian style, built on top of a cistern. The common room has a glass floor to appreciate the water.

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❝ The Arachne gardens & greenhouses ❞

Meticulously landscaped gardens, a rose maze, and a series of Victorian glass greenhouses. Usually where the gardening club has their activities.

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❝ The Lethe Library ❞

A vast, library with a central staircase. It houses rare manuscripts and a fully digitized archive. The "Silent Study" rooms are individual glass pods. The lower archives are off-limits, requiring a founder's key.

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❝ The Asphodel Sports Complex & Pool ❞

A state-of-the-art athletic facility with a gleaming Olympic-sized indoor pool. Named for the ancient Greek flower of the underworld. Always overly chlorinated, the air hazy and stinging. The pool drains are unusually large. The water is always a bit too cold.

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❝ The Orpheus Music & Arts Building ❞

A sleek, modernist building with excellent acoustics, all sharp angles and glass. Home to individual soundproof practice rooms, a stunning recital hall with perfect acoustics, and studios flooded with northern light. It's where beauty is perfected through relentless, isolated repetition. The building is a pressure cooker of artistic obsession.

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❝ The Aether Observatory ❞

A domed, copper-roofed structure on the highest hill of the campus, housing a powerful but antiquated telescope. Used for astronomy classes and as a serene, romantic spot to view the stars, far from campus lights.

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❝ The Panopticon ❞

Accessed through a discreet, always-locked door in Vere Hall. The room is a time capsule of dark wood, leather, and a massive, carved desk. One wall is a false antique bookcase. Behind it lies the true heart of the school: The Panopticon—a circular, windowless room with a 360-degree bank of live feeds from every public and many private spaces on campus.

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❝ The Below ❞

A labyrinth of dank, concrete utility tunnels that carry pipes and wires between buildings. In older sections, the walls become rough stone, merging with the preserved foundations of the Verveer Sanitarium: rooms with rusted bed frames, ceramic tiles, and drains in the floor. The "official" tunnels are off-limits but navigable with a master key.

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❝ The Styx ❞

A picturesque, weather-beaten boathouse on the black, still river that loops around the peninsula. It has a few rowboats for sanctioned ecological studies. The river's slow, deep stretch behind the school is nicknamed "The Styx" by students. The water is deceptively deep and freezing cold year-round. The boathouse lock is often broken, and the boats are used for unsanctioned, private meetings. It's a classic site for whispered secrets and tragic "accidents."

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❝ The Mnemosyne Archives ❞

Not just the library's lower level, but the school's true memory. A climate-controlled, sterile room in the administrative building's basement. It contains digitized records of every student's application, performance, disciplinary notes, therapist summaries (the school has two on staff), and even scanned fragments of personal journals "confiscated for well-being."

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❝ The Cliffside Rose Garden & The Fall ❞

A small, stunningly beautiful garden perched precariously on the cliffs overlooking the violent sea below. Carefully curated roses that smell divine, mixed with hardy, wind-swept wildflowers. A wrought-iron bench faces the ocean. It's breathtaking and profoundly lonely. The cliff edge is unstable, slowly eroding. The school does the minimum to maintain the safety fence.

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⠀ ⏝ི𓏶. ゚⠀Nearby L𔘓ca†i𔘓ns⠀⠀⭒ ˳ :

The Whispering Woods: The dense, old-growth forest that surrounds the school peninsula. Officially off-limits beyond marked trails. Filled with abandoned outbuildings from the sanitarium era, strange rock formations, and a pervasive silence that "whispers" in your head.

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Haven's End: The closest town, a 45-minute drive down a winding forest road. A quaint, tourist-trap village with a dark underbelly. It has cozy cafes used by students, an old cinema, and a pier. It also has a townie population that deeply resents the elite "Academy Kids," and several bars where forbidden relationships between students and locals begin.

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The Verveer Point Lighthouse: A crumbling, decommissioned lighthouse on the tip of the peninsula. The ultimate symbol of a failed guardian. A popular spot for parties, pacts, and secret rendezvous. Its beam no longer guides ships but seems to sometimes flash on stormy nights, beckoning something from the deep.

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Berry presenting... Dorian Caballero! He is just overprotective guys!!! I promise he isn't as bad (he definitely is). Sorry for the . in the portraits, he just... has a lot of hair styles guys 🙄 He's... mostly a sweetheart unless you talk to someone else, then he's going to kill himself in front of you (not really). Also, I wanted to make him fat but pixai kept making him muscular rather than fat, so, live with this 🥀

I JUST FUCKING REALIZED THAT CABALLERO MEANS KNIGHT AND DORIAN'S WHOLE CHARACTER IS ABOUT BEING A "KNIGHT" (kind of) IM SO... DUMB 😭😭 OH btw guy here is an extra image of {{user}}'s last roommate :D his name is Bernard.

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