Sit inside a mind that survives by inches.
No skips. No gloss.
You’re present for each trembling breath
What is this?
In the Breaking series, horror becomes introspection. It examines how to endure when the mind is crushed, what returns when it’s allowed to heal, and how power can rewrite the meaning of morality. It turns terror into an emotional journey through pressure, release, and the trembling renewal that follows.
What the stories feel like to read
Watch the mind as it endures pressure. Feel its pain, its relief, its fragile hope.
These stories hold you inside the body's reaction to survival. They turn endurance into an emotion you can almost breathe.
How the stories move
Told at the pace of survival itself, one step, one thought, one tremor at a time.
No heartbeat is skipped, no silence edited away. You journey through every waking hour, every uneasy sleep, every thought that refuses to quiet.
How dark it goes
The stories refuse to hurry past what hurts. They witness horror as it truly unfolds.
Slowly, relentlessly, moment by moment. Such things happen in our world, and these stories face them with unflinching honesty. Themes include non-consensual sex and intimacy, psychological manipulation, humiliation, and dehumanization. Each chapter carries content warnings so you can decide when to look away.
The Breaking series is written and can be read out of order. Yet together they trace one long arc: from the raw instability of survival to the hard-won peace that follows. Over sixty years, the same souls fracture, mend, and change in ways only time could shape.
Begin with the story that speaks to you most.
Full Story Descriptions
Breaking a Warlord
A Dark Serial of Power and Pain
Scaldmere lost the civil war against the Water Sanctum. Damion, Scaldmere’s pride, is taken prisoner and transformed into its shame. To be a symbol. To be a lesson.
To become a pet.
This is a brutal unraveling of identity told moment by moment, with no relief and no time skips. You live inside Damion’s mind as he is stripped of his name, his choices, his self.
What survives when everything else is stripped away?
Told in real time. Begin here if you want to witness the full collapse. Move on to Breaking Free when you’re ready to see his recovery.
Breaking Free
The Weight of Freedom
The story of recovery after ritualized captivity.
Mulsae kept Damion as a pet. Now freed, he must relearn how to be a person again.
Freedom should mean safety, but instead it feels overwhelming: how do you ask for things when you’ve been trained never to want? How do you make a choice when your choices were taken away?
This is a slow, painful journey through trauma, dignity, and reclaiming the self. The story unfolds one day at a time, with no skips and no glossing over. Every moment is lived as Damion lives it, from awkward breakfasts to aching flashbacks. Healing isn’t summarized. It’s witnessed.
Breaking the Breaker
When the Slaver is Enslaved
A political fantasy horror of survival through performance.
It begins on Day One of Zudaeshi’s reign, the self-proclaimed Harmonarch of the Eight Sanctums. She rules Harmura with stolen magic and brutal charisma. Zudaeshi is the tyrant, the tactician, the master of a reign built on fear, control, and spectacle.
Mulsae serves at her side and in her bed. Damion kneels at their feet. They're trapped together in Zudaeshi’s occupied palace, forced to discover who they really are when everything else is stripped away.
Zudaeshi saw Mulsae break Damion. Now she wants to learn how it was done so she can break Mulsae, too. And she plans to enjoy every second of it.
Told in real time, this is an unblinking descent into power, identity, and the fragments of self that emerge only under relentless pressure.
Breaking a Warlord showed what a responsible pet owner looks like. This is what happens when a sadist gets hold of the leash.
Breaking Out
Evil Unlearned
Zudaeshi’s reign has endured assassins, rebellions, and the slow erosion of decades. She commands nearly all the magic of Harmura, yet her hunger for total dominion and her futile love for Garrick will lead her not to glory, but to ruin.
Mulsae and Damion survive as her captives, their masks of elegance concealing years of exhaustion. Mulsae, once her most exquisite weapon, begins a different kind of war, one fought in thought rather than blood.
His rebellion is quiet: learning to act with care in a place built on fear, to unlearn cruelty without losing strength, and to imagine what leadership might mean when domination is no longer the measure of worth.
In time, he learns that redemption is not born of revolt but of comprehension, to wield power with empathy, to lead without cruelty, and to believe that even in the heart of a monster’s empire, decency can still be learned.
Breaking In
How to Come Home
Freedom is a fragile experiment. Mulsae, Damion, and their fractured circle are learning how to live beyond survival—how to yield, trust, and forgive in a world that still trembles from Zudaeshi’s reign. Recovery becomes a shared act of faith, but peace is uneasy. As Harmura heals, Shinra gathers in the dark, waiting for its chance to strike.
Breaking Ground
The Shape of Peace
Peace was never meant to last unguarded. Harmura’s survivors have built a fragile home, bound by love instead of fear, but Shinra’s armies have come to test it. As war reaches their shores, Mulsae, Damion, and their newfound family must decide what peace is worth defending, and what family truly means when the world burns again.
The World of Harmura
The stories take place in Harmura, a land alive with magic and home to both mortals and immortals. The peninsula is divided into eight elemental Sanctums: seven are ruled by immortal Masters with absolute authority, while the eighth forbids immortals entirely and remains a human territory without a unifying ruler. Magic itself shapes Harmura’s social order: the Starborne, human-celestial hybrids, stand at its peak; the Windborne, winged immortals, serve as their aides; and humans occupy the lowest rung, governed by those above them.
This world was built to explore what happens when authority is absolute and magic lives in the body itself. With no law or judgment above them, the Masters of Harmura define right and wrong for their Sanctums.
When no one is strong enough to stop you, what kind of person do you become?
These stories examine morality when there isn't a rulebook, tracing how conscience takes shape when no authority enforces it.
Three paths stretch before you
Where will you step first?