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Hogwarts: Am I Really a Traditional Wizard?

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Iain never had much hope for his life at Hogwarts. Other people came to Hogwarts to study magic and fall in love. He, and he alone, spent every day suffering because one disaster after another kept landing on his head. He had planned to shake up the literary world with a single copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Instead, a joint protest from every ghost in the castle killed the idea before it ever got off the ground. He also poured his heart and soul into a groundbreaking paper titled The Mass Breeding and Care of the Dark Lord in Captivity, only for the entire project’s data to collapse when the subject repeatedly escaped and refused to cooperate. To make matters worse, someone inside the Ministry of Magic kept filing anonymous reports about Iain every single day, slandering him as some Dark Lord of darkness and doom, when he was obviously nothing more than a wizard with a few old-fashioned traditional ideas. If he ever got his hands on that sneaky little rat, Iain swore he would rip out the man’s soul, put it through nine hundred and ninety-nine steps of traditional craftsmanship, turn it into a soul lantern, and display it in his lab right beside Merlin’s favorite treasure as part of the collection.
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The Halo Effect

Noel Arden just wants to disappear. As a member of a prestigious and influential family known for producing powerful espers and guides, Noel’s D classification is an embarrassment. Determined to work as a guide despite his father’s opposition, Noel spends his days in the D-suite of Halo, the largest, most successful Paradigm agency in the country, keeping his head down and enduring the less pleasant aspects of his job. It’s not a bad life; he likes his coworkers, he doesn’t have to rely on his increasingly hostile father, and he’s almost never deployed to Fray sites. As long as he steers clear of his S-class esper half-brother, he can just melt into the background and pretend to be a normal, low level guide, just one of hundreds in Halo’s bottom ranks. Invisible and unremarkable. Exactly the way he wants it. Then an emergency situation during an unexpected deployment forces Noel to shatter his quiet, boring life with his own hands and thrusts him directly into the notoriety he’s worked so hard to avoid. When he witnesses Jade Ransom, Halo’s star esper and one of the only S-classes in the country, melting down from corruption overload, Noel has no choice but to use the ability he swore to never reveal in order to save both Jade and the city from destruction. Jade, desperate after a life of guiding intolerance, latches onto Noel as the only guide he’s ever properly synced with and insists on being exclusive partners. With his back against the wall and his pesky conscience whispering in his ear, Noel agrees. Struggling to balance his secret, his normal job, and his connection to Jade, Noel finds the stable life he worked so hard to build crumbling around him. And as he and Jade grow closer, Noel has to reckon with the vast differences between them and decide if he’s prepared to burn himself out just to let Jade shine. #GUIDEVERSE #ESPER #SLOWBURN [ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER] *original cover by me *character portraits commissioned
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