Blood Beneath the Lights

In the Aurelian Republic, the Supreme Court upholds the “Child Protection Act,” banning gender-affirming care for minors. For Damian Ellis, a grieving father whose teenage son Noah took his own life after the ruling, the law is a death sentence. As Veridian City’s neon towers glisten with prosperity, Damian descends into its shadows, exposing the festering wounds beneath the polished surface. When every legal appeal fails, he embarks on a meticulous campaign of vengeance against the lawmakers and judges who destroyed his family. Yet with each act of retribution, the line between righteous fury and monstrous cruelty blurs. Civilisation, he learns, is only a thin layer of plaster over a pit of savagery—and he is falling straight through it.