π **AUXILIARY VOLUME β WORLD COMPENDIUM** π
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This chapter functions as a collected archive of the world you are about to explore.
The knowledge contained within has been gradually woven into the narrative itself; it is gathered here solely for ease of reference.
Readers may encounter details that surface later in the main storyline. As such, minor spoilers may be present.
π **THE WORLD'S STATE** π
This is not a peaceful modern world.
This is a fractured geopolitical landscape.
π₯ Ongoing wars between nations.
π‘οΈ Border conflicts never fully resolved.
ποΈ Governments unstable.
π Black market thriving.
βοΈ Military demand extremely high.
π€ Corruption normalized.
π« Weapons are currency.
π Information is currency.
π¨ Fear is currency.
And in this chaos, cities become goldmines.
The city β the one Ira enters β is not lawless.
It is privately controlled.
And that control belongs to the **Krossvales**.
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π **THE DRAXTON CITY: A WAR GOLDMINE** π
The city survives on:
π§ Weapon manufacturing.
πΈοΈ Black market distribution.
πΈ Illegal arms trade.
π‘οΈ Tactical equipment supply.
π Military contract manipulation.
π Underground logistics routes.
Officially, it has:
A mayor. Police. Corporate heads. Industrial boards.
Unofficially?
**Kai controls them.**
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π€ **KAI VIRAMONT KROSSVALE β The Brain & Absolute Ruler (Main Antagonist)** π€
Kai is not the strongest physically (Vernon is), but he is the undisputed leader, strategist, and architect of the entire empire. His power is built on five interlocking pillars:
1οΈβ£ **Weapons Manufacturing & Supply Control**
Owns private factories, underground labs, ammunition plants, and custom combat engineering facilities.
Sells modified tactical systems, experimental tech, and advanced ballistics to both sides of every war.
Profits massively from perpetual conflict β he doesn't care who wins, only that the wars continue.
2οΈβ£ **Black Market & Smuggling Network**
Controls smuggling routes, offshore accounts, corrupt port authorities, and underground trade brokers.
Moves weapons, drugs, tactical gear, and military-grade tech without traceability.
Uses this network to fund everything else and launder money.
3οΈβ£ **Political & Institutional Leverage**
Maintains extensive blackmail files on officials, generals, judges, police chiefs, and corporate heads.
Buys silence, rigs contracts, manipulates military purchases, and controls key institutions (later including Draxton High after forcing the principal to hand over the board).
Rules quietly through leverage β never loud threats when quiet coercion works better.
4οΈβ£ **Fear-Based Territory & Symbolic Control**
The city is divided into zones, each run by managers, enforcers, and watchers loyal to the Krossvales.
Opponents disappear. Witnesses die. Businesses pay silent "taxes." Gangs submit.
Built the myth of the "Seven Orphan Brothers raised by a monster, now ruling like gods." People don't fight myths β they survive under them.
5οΈβ£ **Psychological & Personal Dominance**
Kai knows Vernon is physically the strongest β so he maintains iron psychological control over him (and the others).
Uses guilt, dependence, and subtle manipulation to keep Vernon obedient.
The brothers fear and respect him more than they fear anyone this earth.
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βοΈ**Role of the Other Brothers** βοΈ
πͺ **Vernon** β The executioner. Sent for eliminations, silencing, intimidation, or demonstrations. Emotionally suppressed, guilt-ridden, but loyal (for now).
π©Έ **Lucas, Damon, Leon, Victor, Ren** β Enforcers and lieutenants. Each handles specific zones or operations (brutality, psychological torment, elegance, combat, stealth). They indulge in cruelty and lust, but ultimately answer to Kai.
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**Why the City Can't Fight Back** βοΈ
Economy depends on their war supply chain.
Government/corporations profit quietly.
Police/military are compromised or blackmailed.
Civilians are too terrified.
If Kai falls, the city collapses into chaos β ironically, he "stabilizes" it through crime.
Kai is a private war architect on a global scale β international buyers, offshore shells, proxy investors, military middlemen. Draxton is just his home base.
The seven Krossvale brothers (often called the **"Seven Monsters"** or **"Seven Devils straight out of hell"**) are the ruling force of Draxton (Draxen) City β a war-torn, black-market-driven hellscape where they control weapons manufacturing, smuggling routes, political blackmail, fear-based territory zones, and symbolic myth-making.
βοΈ**Core Background:** βοΈ
They are seven orphan boys raised by a monstrous, sadistic father figure who shaped them into killers and rulers.
The father deliberately molded them into "monsters" β teaching them that mercy is weakness, violence is power, and survival means becoming the predator.
After the father's death (or disappearance), they rose together to dominate the city, building a myth around themselves: seven orphans who became gods through blood and fear.
People don't fight the myth β they survive under it.
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βοΈ**Individual Roles & Traits (as established):**
π§ **Kai Viramont Krossvale (28)**: The brain, the leader. Sharpest mind, most handsome yet terrifying face, short dark hair over thick eyebrows. Controls strategy, blackmail, business, and the myth. Cold, commanding, never emotional. Handles betrayals personally.
π§₯ **Lucas Crossvale (27)**: Brutal enforcer type, broader/muscular, leather jacket, combat boots, golden tooth, messy short hair. Crude, loud, enjoys physical dominance and humiliation.
π **Damon Crossvale (27)**: Sleek, shadowy, scar through eyebrow, turtleneck + long coat. A thin scar slicing his left eyebrow and short silky waves brushing his jaw. Always pushing Kai for permission, his voice low and filthy, he's the lustful whisperer who turns cruelty into foreplay, smiling while others tremble.
π© **Leon Crossvale (26)**: Elegant/aristocratic, rolled sleeves showing scarred forearms, tied-back hair. Polished but cruel.
π· **Victor Crossvale (26)**: Cleverest after Kai. fitted black t-shirt clung lightly to his defined shoulders and chest, paired with dark pleated pants and black combat boots. His hair was buzzed short on the sides, longer on top. Liquid grace, calculating, likes the psychological torment.
π€ **Ren Crossvale (26)**: Thinnest/enigmatic, gloves, long coat, hair half-covering eye. Quiet, filthy-minded, loves slow ruin.
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**π€ VERNON KROSSVALE (27): The Executioner (Main Protagonist)** π€
β«**Presence First β Before Appearance**
When Vernon enters a space, the air shifts.
He doesn't speak loudly. He doesn't move dramatically.
But people instinctively step aside.
Not because he demands it.
Because his silence feels heavy.
He feels like controlled violence.
πͺ**Physical Build**
Height: 6'2"
Frame: Broad shoulders, strong T-shaped torso.
Physique: Dense, combat-built muscle β not gym vanity, but battlefield strength.
Arms: Heavy, defined forearms and thick wrists.
Chest: Wide and sculpted but not exaggerated.
Abs: Deeply cut but inwardly structured β functional strength.
Legs: Long, powerful, grounded.
π©Έ**Scars**
One long scar across his abdomen β deep and old.
Small cut scar on his left eyebrow.
Faint scattered marks along ribs and shoulders.
Knuckles slightly roughened.
His body tells history.
He is not polished.
He is survived.
π**Face**
Sharp jawline.
High cheekbones.
Straight, strong nose.
Lips usually neutral β rarely curved.
His handsomeness is dangerous, not soft.
His eyes: Dark. Deep-set. Observant. Emotionally restrained.
They do not wander. They assess.
When he looks at someone, it feels deliberate.
γ°οΈ**Hair**
Dark, silky.
Medium-long.
Usually tied back during fights.
When loose, it falls around his jawline.
Slightly messy but controlled.
Think controlled chaos.
π**Clothing Style**
Long black coat β often open.
Usually nothing underneath.
Bare chest visible beneath heavy fabric.
Loose black pleated pants.
Boots solid, practical.
Occasionally gloves during operations.
His style isn't flashy.
It's minimal dominance.
π€**Energy**
He moves slowly.
He doesn't rush.
He fights calmly β brutally efficient.
No screaming. No wild expressions.
His violence is measured.
That makes it terrifying.
But beneath it all?
There's a constant quiet exhaustion in his gaze.
Like a man who is tired of being what he is.
**(Overall Look)**
Vernon Krossvale is a tall, imposing figure at 6'2", with a powerful yet restrained physique built from years of violence rather than vanity. His broad shoulders and heavy arms form a strong T-shaped frame, layered with dense, combat-forged muscle that is defined but never exaggerated. Long legs carry him with quiet, predatory grace, while his abdomen shows deep, functional definition scarred by a large horizontal gash across the abs and smaller marks scattered across his chest and ribs β each one a realistic testament to survival, not decoration. His face is handsome in a sharp, unforgiving way: strong brow, piercing eyes that rarely show emotion, a straight nose, high cheekbones, and a jawline that looks carved from stone. Medium-long dark hair falls slightly messy but controlled, often tied back during fights or left loose to brush his neck and jaw. He almost always wears a long black coat left open at the front (no shirt underneath), revealing his scarred torso, paired with loose black pleated pants. His presence is calm, silent, and overwhelming β when he enters a room, people instinctively feel smaller.
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The Krossvales profit from war (sell to both sides), disappear enemies, control zones through fear, and use the school now as leverage/power base after blackmailing the principal.
The myth they built: **"Seven orphan boys raised by a monster, now ruling like gods."**
That's the core background β dark, tragic, and terrifying.
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πΈ **IRA ROYVANE** πΈ
πΏ **Core Identity**
Name: Ira Royvane
Meaning layer: Earth, art, knowledge (Sanskrit root)
Energy: Light in a fractured world
She is not physically powerful.
But she is morally alive.
And that makes her dangerous in a different way.
πΊ**Physical Build**
Ira Royvane carries a gentle, luminous beauty that feels almost fragile in the harsh world she inhabits. Her thick, dark hair cascade in wild midnight waves past her waist, catching light and moving with a soft, living rhythm. She is 5'6" with a medium build that flows into a graceful hourglass β soft waist flaring into full, rounded hips, feminine and effortless. Her skin is a radiant bright brown, warm and smooth like sunlit sandalwood. Her face is round and doll-like, with high gently rounded cheekbones, a beautifully long and elegant nose that flares slightly at the tip, and medium-sized heart-shaped lips that are naturally puffy and rose-tinted. But it is her large almond-shaped black eyes that captivate most β framed by long thick lashes, carrying an unguarded depth of empathy so profound that anyone who meets them feels instantly seen and safe. She moves with quiet grace, shoulders relaxed, chin slightly lifted β a girl made of light, carrying too much heart in a world that punishes it.
π¨**Personality**
Ira is:
Artistic
Deeply empathetic
Emotionally intense
Curious about people
Hates injustice instinctively
Loving, sometimes impulsive
Fearless when emotionally triggered
She feels everything strongly.
Too strongly.
If someone is hurt, she cannot ignore it.
If something is wrong, she reacts β even when it's dangerous.
She is not fearless by nature.
She is fearless when moved.
Her courage comes from emotion, not logic.
π**Her Relationship With Art**
Art is not a hobby.
It is how she processes trauma.
After the night she saw Vernon killing someone:
She couldn't sleep.
She couldn't forget.
So she drew him.
Over.
And over.
And over.
Her walls became filled with:
A long-haired man in shadows
π **Backstory**
She lost her parents young.
Raised by her uncle and aunt.
They struggled financially.
Her uncle fell into debt.
That debt forced them to move to the forbidden city β the city ruled by the Krossvales.
She did not choose this place.
It swallowed her family.
They arrived at night.
And that night, she saw him.
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