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Arlo is lost. He thought he had everything figured out. Go to university, fall in love, get a job. But life doesn’t always work like that, and before he has a chance to figure it out, he dies. Over night, Arlo is plunged into a world of blood and immortality and finds a group of people who swear to always have his back, and they promise him eternal safety. But something is after him, something no one could have ever predicted. He craves to understand his purpose before he falls into something he can never come back from

Tropes
Found family, unreliable narrator, chosen one (chosen by the villain), academic setting

Tags
Aro/Ace MC, No Spice, Queer, trans SC

Content Warnings

Frequent depressive and self-deprecating thoughts made by the first-person narrator, Discussions of suicide, Extreme violence, torture, and body-horror gore on and off page, Self-inflicted injuries (not with suicidal intent), Sexual harassment, Fade-to-black sexually intimate scene between two drunk characters, Manipulation and possession, Reference to past eating disorders, and weight-loss, Death of family members (off page past events), On page character death, Excessive alcohol consumption, Ignorance to touch aversion, Overdosing on pain killers/vomiting up medicine and blood.