God of Malice

Content Warning: This section features discussions of sexual violence and harassment, rape, ableism, mental illness, death by suicide, suicidal ideation and self-harm, animal cruelty and death, substance use, addiction, graphic violence, sexual content, cursing, illness and death, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Nineteen-year-old Glyndon King is a student in the arts program at Royal Elite University (REU). She comes from a family of renowned artists, and her mother, Astrid, is known worldwide for her paintings. Her older brothers, Landon and Brandon, are also well-known for their art, particularly at their university. However, in comparing herself to the other artists in the family, Glyndon feels that she has no talent. Though she uses painting as an emotional outlet, she rarely shows her paintings and is unsure of her own art style. This affected Glyndon greatly growing up and made her feel like an outcast in the family, so she sought comfort in her grandfather, Jonathan, who preferred her to the other grandchildren. Glyndon felt that she could not share her feelings with her family, a feeling that only increased with her brother Landon’s coldness toward her.

Glyndon thus grew up feeling misunderstood and detached, particularly in her teen years, and she fears that she was accepted into REU merely because of her family rather than based on her own talent.