The Faceless Boy

Name: The Faceless Boy
Author: pawntoglory

by pawntoglory

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About

Cecil was born without a face. No eyes. No nose. Just a mouth that smiles too wide. Raised in isolation by an old woman who wrapped him in magical suppressor bandages, Cecil was taught to hide from the world. He grew up perceiving reality not as light and shape, but as rivers of colored energy. When a moment of kindness exposes him to a terrified village, the mob burns his home and leaves his only family for dead. Something inside Cecil answers. A dormant, ancient heat he could never name. It takes control. It speaks through his mouth. And in sixty seconds, it slaughters the entire town. Waking up surrounded by a sea of blood with no memory of the slaughter, Cecil is captured by the ERA, a shadow organization that regulates the world's egoists. Given a choice between joining a black-site training program or being put down, Cecil is thrust into a dark, steampunk world of steam trains, mana-combat, and hidden factions. Teamed with a frostbitten ice-mage carrying a burn scar from his psychotic sister, and a blunt, dual-weapon prodigy who analyzes everything, Cecil must learn to fight without letting the entity inside him take the wheel. But as a syndicate known as The Choir begins weaponizing civilians, and ancient, bottomless shafts in the earth start resonating with the very heat in Cecil's chest, the bandages might not hold forever. He was raised to be hidden. Now, the world is about to see what he really is.