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The Marionette King

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Everyone listens when the King speaks. No one remembers choosing to. The Marionette King rules without a throne, a face, or an army. Only a voice that slips into the mind and leaves obedience behind. Resistance isn’t punished. It simply doesn’t exist. Lira knows better than to ask questions. In a world built on silence, curiosity is a quiet kind of death. But when a chance encounter pulls her into the shadows of a growing rebellion, she begins to notice the cracks, hesitations in the King’s commands, moments where the world seems to stutter. As the rebels close in on the source of the control, Lira is forced to confront a terrifying truth: freedom may be far more dangerous than obedience. Because some strings, once cut, don’t set you free. They tighten.
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The Extra: Subject 082

Rio only wanted to see how the story ended. Instead, he woke up inside it. Not as the protagonist, not even as a supporting character—but as someone who barely existed in the narrative. An extra with no importance, no future, and no place in the story’s direction. At least, that’s how it was supposed to be. Now in the body of Rio Valen, a disgraced noble exiled from his own house, he finds himself in a region the original story barely touched—one driven as much by advanced technology as it is by arcane power. And buried beneath it, something far worse. The facility he wakes up in shouldn’t exist. The experiments conducted there shouldn’t have succeeded. And whatever was placed inside him was never meant to survive. As fragments of memory return—both his own and the life he inherited—Rio begins to understand the situation he’s in. The world still follows its original course. The key figures are still moving toward the same future. But his existence doesn’t fit anywhere within it. Even so, people begin to notice him. Not because of who he is—but because of something they can’t quite explain. A presence. A flaw. Or something far more dangerous. Some approach out of curiosity. Others, for reasons he doesn’t understand. And a few, simply because staying away isn’t an option. With no role to follow and no clear path ahead, Rio is left with a simple choice: Stay invisible and survive. Or step into a story that was never meant to include him. Because in a world that already has its main character— an extra that shouldn’t exist might be the only thing that can change it. **The cover used is temperoray, I hold no credits towards the art**
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