(LGBT Dark Fantasy)
The world ended when belief learned how to bleed.
After the gods fell silent, their scripture poisoned the sky. Ink rained down and rewrote the living, turning prayer into a weapon, devotion into hunger. Tattoos became conduits of power, and the faithful became monsters bound by the words carved into their flesh.
Nickolai Crow was never meant to be human.
Marked at birth by a living crow tattoo, no blade can pierce, he was stolen from his mother and raised by a religious order that fears him as much as it needs him. The Temple teaches him obedience. The Ink teaches him desire. And beneath the prophecy that defines his life lies a truth the gods tried to erase.
When the seals holding the old magic begin to fracture, Nickolai escapes into the wasteland, where forgotten cities rot beneath ash skies and living scripture stalks the dark. There, he forges bonds that are deeper than friendship and more dangerous than love.
Thalen, a quiet scribe whose ink awakens something ancient when it touches Nickolai's skin.
Tamian, a dreamer bound by prophecy who is slowly being erased by the same magic that desires him.
Elias, brilliant, volatile, and desperate, whose need to belong threatens to destroy them all.
Their bonds are not symbolic. They are ritual, intimacy, and power, magic written through trust, surrender, and want. In a world where bodies are scripture, connection becomes both salvation and sin.
As the truth of the Ink Wars surfaces and the warlock Vileborn's true legacy is revealed, Nickolai must confront the lie at the heart of his destiny. He was not chosen to save the world.
He was designed to contain it.
Dark, lyrical, and unapologetically queer, Bound by Ink is a post-apocalyptic fantasy about bodily autonomy, forbidden intimacy, and the violence of belief. It asks what remains of a person when the world decides their body is a tool, and whether love, in all its dangerous forms, can be enough to rewrite fate itself.
