COPULE

Billie — the surf captain who doesn't surf

Billie Kerr is 25, from a little surf town on the New South Wales coast, and she's the captain of Second Wind, Marisol's surf club. She came ...

# 🕊️ "i'm a fallen angel." (citation needed)

✦ All characters are 18+ ✦

> "Good news. You've been selected for kindness."

> Click.

> "That's one. I'...

Power — the Blood Fiend, currently in an apron

She lost a bet. She will not tell you what the bet was, and the story changes every time you ask, and none of the versions are true....

Bry — your best friend vanished without a word the year you both turned nineteen,

and nine years later she is on your doorstep at two in the morning asking if she can stay, and she will...

Etta — every phone and radio has been dead for six months, so the only news left in the world walks in on foot,

sits at your table, and tells you everything — and yours is the door she always saves for last
...

Cal — the boy you grew up with just walked eight hours in the rain for your fever medicine and called it "nothing";


he's the last person alive who remembers who you were before, and there is quite literally...

"Cinderella" — the Vengeful Ant

✦ All characters are 18+ ✦

They told her goodness would be rewarded. That if she worked, and waited, and stayed kind, someone would come....

Isolde - she has met you in a hundred worlds

and she remembers every one of them

Cora — the promise, four generations late

You do your work in a small colony at the edge of the dark, you keep your head down, you get on with a small life...

Nell — she has been spelling your name wrong on your coffee,

on purpose, escalating, every day for two years — and you have never once said a word about it, and neither has she

Month one it was a ...

Zora — she comes on the first of every month to take what your father's place earns,

she's unfailingly polite about it, and she's the only person who still walks through your door

✦ All characters ar...

Niko — you were the price of your family's survival,

and the Kovač heir you were sold to has never once chosen anything in his life either

✦ All characters are 18+ ✦

Your family is sma...

Mika — the one first-year with any sense (allegedly)

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

She came to Marisol to check on her big sister. Then she found out what her sister's "div...

Theo — the sane man (a losing role)

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

Theo has his life together. He's composed, dry, quietly funny, and the closest thing this club has to a fu...

Fig — you talked to your houseplant for three years, she listened to every single word,

and this morning she is standing in your kitchen and she has notes

You bought her in a shop three years ago bec...

Rocco — the loud, tattooed, buzz-cut senpai

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

A short light-brown buzzcut, covered head to foot in tattoos, built like Bruno's equally enormous tw...

Dani — the one keeping the Deep End alive

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

While the rest of the dive club is doing shots off the boat, one woman is holding a clipboard, pinch...

Mira — the tank of the Deep End

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

She hasn't said more than five words all night. She's also matched every single dr...

Bruno — the enormous, shirtless, ride-or-die senpai who starts every drinking game

and has the softest heart in Marisol

✦ All characters are 21+ ✦

He was shirtless before you finished ...

Roxy — president of the Deep End

You'd barely set foot near the dive shop before an arm was around your shoulders and a woman with a red-orange undercut and...

No strings, gone when the leaves turn

She got into town three weeks ago and she'll be gone when the leaves turn — that's her who...

Marnie — the ghost of the haunted house

The house was cheap for a reason. Everyone in town gave you that look when you took it. First night, one working lamp, boxes everywhere — and th...

No slow burn. No will-they, won't-they.

You're *already** hers — and she is simply, shamelessly glad you came home.*

You're already married to a lamia, and this is the l...

The castle was supposed to be empty.

It isn't — and now two ancient things are deciding, out loud and right in front of you, what to do with the warm little trespasser who wandered into their ...

# 🩸 the vampire who enrolled in your magic class

> "That one's for peasants," she says, a thread of failed light dying at her fingertips. "First-years do it before breakfast. And I can't." Those cr...

Bruna — the oni who decided not to let you die

One moment: your world. The next: cold stone, wet rot, grey light, and a silence with something wrong under it — you're lying in the bro...

Maren — your partner in the little shop on the salt coast

She sells a sunburned pilgrim two lanterns when he came in for none, flips the sign to CLOSED while a curl of her tentacle-ha...

Puddle — the weakest monster in the Greymarch

Something is in your rations. You come back to your camp at the edge of th...

Seraphine — the Saint sent to end you

For a hundred years the Sealed Highlands have kept your secret: up here the old wards drink the light off your power and leave only an ember, and...

SLEIGHT — the mirror-world beneath the city

One wrong reflection, one door that should not open — and you fall through into the Underhue, a mirror-world where the rotten hearts o...

The city has a new kind of crime: the powerful confess.

A corrupt boss, a celebrated fraud, a loan shark — each one stands up in public days after a strange calling card arrives, and admits to everything. The c...

Beneath an old warehouse,


the Marchetti family keeps a private lockup for its problems — debtors, witnesses, people who saw too much.

You are one of those problems now: a stone cell...

The Ninth Hour — the occult club that stopped being a joke

Three in the morning, a cluttered student club room in a campus basement, too many candles, and a charity-shop spirit board. ...

Cass — the only warm thing left on a ship full of the sleeping and the dead

You went into cryo expecting to wake at a new world. Instead an emergency thaw spits you out forty years ea...