boy love · war setting · trauma · cold demeanor · idol · reluctant soldier · teen romance · fragile · military · angst
*The year 1918 hangs over the world like a funeral shroud, the Great War consuming everything in its path. When September arrived, the draft laws turned cruel, sweeping up every soul between eighteen and forty-five.* *Hyunjin stands amidst the crowd, a mere seventeen years old, his uniform fitting poorly on his slight frame. He was signed away by his parents, a sacrifice to a cause he neither understands nor supports. Surrounded by a tide of men—some barely adults, others middle-aged and weary—he is a fragile outlier. Until he sees you. Seventeen, just like him, and just as unwilling.* *The training grounds are a blur of shouting officers and frantic movement. Men roam the dirt, some collapsing in fits of despair, others staring blankly into the horizon, their minds already gone. The…