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❪ ⋅ ◆ ⋆ — maleficium┊❛ a deadly education ❜ ❫

genres ⠀ mixture of dark fantasy and fantasy realism, angst, cathartic screaming(and lots of it), one sided romance but it's definitely not one sided despite what muse A thinks, corner of extreme woe, muse a just suffers yeah? muse b is kinda just living their best life in the mean time and things just keep working out for them.
preferred gender / age of muse partner ⠀ no preference.
romance? ⠀ yes please.
? ⠀ preferable, but not required.

content warnings ⠀ descriptions of body horror and gore, violent impulses and thoughts, monsters,
notes ⠀ kind of lore heavy but i'm more than happy to explain or forego some of the more technical/niche aspects of the source material to help make it easier.

plot ⠀ i don't have a specific storyline for this so i'm literally copying and pasting the wikipedia universe description(but i've cut it down) as it's the best explanation of the plot setting. Strap in for a read!

Magic is real, but "mundanes" are largely unable to perceive it. Due to their mana, the magical energy that all sorcerers create and use, magic-wielders are constantly in danger from mana-eating monsters called maleficaria. Maleficaria, or "mals", are particularly attracted to young sorcerers just after puberty, and ninety-five percent of magic children do not survive to adulthood. Elite communities of wizards live in structures known as enclaves, which are far easier to defend from mals, but these are difficult to build and access to them is jealously guarded, creating a deep class divide.

The Scholomance was built as a haven where wizard children can learn magic in a safer environment until they are able to defend themselves. The school was constructed in the Void, a space outside of reality, and as such has a number of strange properties, even bordering on sentience. It is connected to the physical world at only one point, the graduation gates. Students are magically transported into the Scholomance and have no contact with the outside world until graduation day four years later, when they exit the school via the gates. There are no adults; students are provided with a curriculum, materials, and assignments by the school itself.

The safety of the Scholomance is relative. Its magical wards and mechanics can keep out most maleficaria, but not all, and half of all students are killed before graduation. Half of the remainder perish during graduation itself, when they must run from the school proper to the gates, through an unwarded hall where hundreds of mals congregate. Most of a student's tenure at the school is spent learning spells, building mana, and creating alliances in order to make it through the run alive.