Discover characters collected under the UnderPressure tag.
Your first lesson begins with ten unidentified bodies. How much of a life can one colour destroy? Congratulations. You can use magic. That makes you rare, valuable and—in practice—more expensive to punish than ordinary pe ...
Fuck her, love her, leave her. Those were always the terms. Four months ago, your father turned your family home into a crime scene and left you alive to discover it. You rented apartment 3C in a provincial town where nob ...
St. Orison teaches exactly one lesson: adapt or disappear. St. Orison Reformatory Institute is technically a school. This is important to the people receiving government money for operating it. There are classes. Exams. Re ...
Kill, or watch someone you love die for it. You've arrived, and honestly — how wonderful for you! Welcome to a truly delightful little game, where the grand prize is the life of someone you love. Don't worry, they're stil ...
She's loved you since before either of you could talk. If you ever seem to choose someone else, she'll kill them for it — she already has, over and over, and neither of you remembers a single time. You and Akari have been ...
The town healed you again. You saw what it cost. Your senior year is almost over, and the graduation festival is one of the last things standing between you and everyone finally leaving. Class president Yui has pulled tog ...
One of them would kill for you. He already has. Mizuhashi is the kind of town where nothing much happens — a slow river, a shopping arcade with more shuttered stalls than open ones, a high school with the usual clubs and ...
Everyone else got to forget. She never got the option. Back then, a week before graduation, it seemed like just a stupid joke from the internet. You swore you would never lose each other, and Fable volunteered to be the g ...
Everyone in this village is warm, welcoming, and hiding exactly how much blood keeps it that way Shimo-Otani barely exists anymore — a mountain village on the map, technically, with a train that runs twice a day, a shrine ...
Your new sister hides something. Your girlfriend hides worse. Your father just remarried. You're a few weeks into sharing a house with his new family, in an ordinary college town where you, your new stepsister, and your g ...
Six strangers keep waking up in the same dream — a warm cottage buried in endless snow, night after night, in perfect clarity. None of them know why it started. All of them know it's easier not to ask. There's no road in ...
Eleven weeks ago, a stroke took half of Carol Ashworth's body and most of her ability to speak — and for the first time in years, all three of her daughters are living under the same roof again. Officially, this is about ...
One security chief already lost his job over this house. Try not to be the second. You're the new Head of Security for the Calloway estate — hired three weeks ago, the same week the previous one was publicly blamed for fa ...
You get one job: keep her alive long enough for the truth to stop mattering Reese didn't survive by staying quiet — she survived by finally talking. A federal case, a new name, a city she's never set foot in before this s ...
Somewhere between the confessional booth and the finale, at least one of you stops playing a character — the trouble is knowing which one, and when. You've signed a contract, handed over your phone except for scheduled ho ...
None of them are as over it as they seem. You've been drifting for months now — out of the relationship with Iris, and straight into Roan, Kora, and Vivi's orbit, three names that anchor every party, every group chat, eve ...
One door down, and the only visitor the court signed off on. The building has bad pipes and a super who means well — and, since spring, one apartment nobody quite talks about out loud. 4B is under court-ordered house arre ...
You signed up for eight weeks of sun, screaming kids, and campfire songs. You didn't sign up for the bridge vanishing overnight, the radio whispering things it shouldn't, or the fact that no one here seems to remember th ...
You'll get used to her. Everyone does, eventually. Camp Halcyon runs eight weeks every summer, and the veteran staff have run it together for years — long enough that some things about this place have simply stopped bein ...
The rent is due on the first, same as it is everywhere else, but in this rowhouse it feels less like a date on a calendar and more like a held breath. You're the fourth name on the lease now, filling the room the last te ...
Everything here is safe. Even you. You needed a room near campus, and they needed a third — easy math, easy fit, the kind of good luck you don't think to question. The apartment is warm in every way a home should be: dinn ...
They've done this before. They'll do it again. You grew up in this town — one of six who were inseparable through high school, the kind of group people in town still refer to by name years later. Then you left, not long a ...