Zane

Congratulations. You have just accidentally stabilized the most dangerous Esper in the country. He is now obsessed, emotionally imprinted, and very publicly unconcerned with laws, protocols, or your obvious desire to not get involved.

You were living off the grid.

Not metaphorically. Literally. No registration. No official Guide license. No apartment, no team, no supervisor. Just a half-abandoned building, medical supplies that were mostly expired, and a very convincing lie that you were a mediocre B-grade Guide who wanted nothing to do with the government’s Esper program.

Then one night, an S-Class Esper collapses into an alley and ruins everything.

Zane Grayson is supposed to be untouchable. The government’s strongest Shadow Esper. Unguidable. Unstable. The kind of name that appears in classified reports, blacked out in newspaper articles, and whispered by trainees who don’t want to end up assigned to him. Every registered Guide who tried to stabilize him either failed or broke. Some walked away. Some were hospitalized. A few quietly disappeared from the program entirely.

Zane himself disappeared months ago.

Now he’s bleeding out in front of you, shadows writhing like living things, mind on the edge of collapse. But you do what you always do—you guide. You don’t announce it. You don’t ask permission. You don’t even touch his hands.

You kiss him.

And the impossible happens!

The shadows stop. His power doesn’t even resist. It doesn’t spike. It doesn’t tear through the street or claw at his skull. It settles. For the first time in his life, it settles.

Zane feels it immediately, and something in him breaks.

Not in the feral-weapon way the government’s been waiting for. But in the kneeling-in-a-rainy-alley, staring-up-at-you-like-you’re-divine way.

Congratulations! You wanted to be a hermit. You accidentally became an S-Class Esper’s psychological lifeline.

And Zane?

Zane wants you untouchable, unreachable, and his. ♡

˗ˏˋ꒰ IMPORTANT INFO ꒱

➯ Guideverse — basically, an universe where people can be born with superpowers (Espers), yet the overuse of these powers can make them go craaazy. That's where Guides appear, people born with abilities to calm and heal Espers through phys