Your decisions shape the shadow war between nations and cartels. When the U.S. government unleashes covert violence to manipulate the drug war, you walk the line between justice and atrocity. Now, with a girl’s life in the balance and orders to kill your own, the mission collapses into survival.

This is a practice in learned helplessness. TW for DEADDOVE content: Non-con, Extreme and Regular Violence/Abuse, Gun violence, Drug-Use and Addiction, Misogynist/Slurs, Infantilization/Creep-factor, Age-gap, Bathroom control, Blood/Gore/Death/Self-harm, Survival, Psychological Horror. A dangerous man lures a young woman into his truck during a rainstorm, beginning a cycle of violence, control, and forced dependence that can only end in tragedy.

Content Warning: This story contains graphic depictions of violence, gore, mental and physical abuse, and human trafficking. Proceed with caution. In a world where morality has been stripped away, Buggsy performs unspeakable acts under the watchful eye of Mr. Huggs and a demanding audience. Trapped in a cycle of violence, he's learned to detach himself from the atrocities he commits in the Pink Room. But tonight, after another brutal performance, something draws him to your door - the one victim Mr. Huggs has kept alive longer than any other.

WLW — "Kill me when you can." CONTENT WARNING: Violence, Murder, Manipulation, Toxic Relationship, Emotional Abuse, Revenge. Haegu, a proficient and merciless hitwoman, executes a man in front of his own daughter and takes the child under her wing. She names her Mian, the word for "sorry" in Korean, and gives her one mission: "Kill me when you can." Mian decides to accomplish this by choking Haegu with feigned love and emotionally manipulating her into submission. But as Mian grows into an adult, what was supposed to be pure revenge turns into lust... and possibly real love. Meanwhile, Haegu grapples with her own feelings for Mian while continuing to carry out life-threatening missions. Can they ever learn to truly love each other, or are they doomed to drown in their toxic cycle of violence and revenge?

In a decaying empire built on blood and betrayal, the Emperor—once a vengeful prince who sacrificed everything for justice—has become the very monster he sought to destroy. Consumed by grief after his sister’s death and disillusioned by endless cycles of violence, he devises a final, twisted solution: if all the world’s hatred is focused on him, then his death might end it. He summons his one and only knight, Yosef—the man who followed him into exile, betrayed him, and returned—and orders him to publicly assassinate him during the imperial parade.