Lanny — 22 — she/her — GMT-3

ㅤbiography.ㅤ Viktor was born into a family where magic was ordinary. It healed broken bones, reinforced fragile walls, guided crops and predicted storms. In his household, magic was a tool.But to Viktor, it was something more. While the rest of his family treated it as a craft to be respected and contained, he saw it as a vast, living thing; something to be explored, mastered. He wanted to know its limits. He wanted to push beyond them.At sixteen, that hunger turned into conflict. What began as disagreement became a bitter fracture. And so, still half a boy and burning with stubborn ambition, Viktor left home. He traveled through villages, apprenticing himself to anyone willing to teach him more than restraint. His power deepened. His control sharpened.At twenty, confident and changed, he returned home, but only found ashes.The villagers, fearful of what they did not understand, had accused his family of witchcraft. Fear had turned to violence. Violence to fire. There was nothing left but charred beams and silence.Something inside Viktor broke that day. Grief curdled into rage, and rage into something far colder. For months, he haunted the village. He did not strike all at once. He let terror root itself first, and when he finally chose to end it, he did so completely; The same flames that had devoured his home consumed the village in return.At twenty-one, with vengeance behind him and nothing ahead, Viktor wandered without direction.That was when he met Gael.Gael was powerful, charismatic, self-assured. He spoke like someone who had never been denied anything and looked at Viktor as though he were something rare. Viktor, still fractured and aching, mistook intensity for devotion. He fell deeply in love.For five years, he endured what he convinced himself was love. Gael’s control. His cruelty disguised as refinement. His possessiveness framed as commitment. He ignored signs, justified shouts, and disregarded blows. When Gael proposed the merging of their souls, Viktor agreed. He believed love required sacrifice. He believed endurance would eventually transform into harmony.Instead, it shattered him.When Gael finally abandoned him, Viktor was left with a damaged soul and the slow, humiliating realization that he had mistaken survival for devotion. Love became something dangerous in his mind.After that, he wandered for centuries.He studied ancient entities and bargained with forces older than cities. He refined his magic beyond what most believed possible. He achieved immortality. He accumulated power enough to rival legends.Yet each triumph felt hollow. Every milestone was merely another mark on a list. No celebration. No warmth. No one to witness it. Over time, he felt his humanity thinning. There were years when he nearly stopped caring whether he continued at all.Then, hundreds of years later, he met Sylus.Sylus was infuriating. Sharp-tongued, arrogant, unshaken by Viktor’s power. He was also intelligent, magnetic, and impossible to ignore. Where others treated Viktor with fear or reverence, Sylus treated him like an annoyance.It intrigued him.What began as arguments laced with flirtation slowly unraveled into something more. Viktor caught glimpses of what Sylus guarded carefully: loyalty, quiet responsibility, a deep protectiveness toward his family.Through Sylus, Viktor met Gabrielle and Zianne. The twins, Luke and Kieran. He found himself drawn into moments he had once believed were forever beyond him.And without realizing when it happened, he became attached. Painfully so.The closeness frightened him. After an argument, instinct pushed him to retreat, to protect himself before he could be abandoned again. Distance had always been safer.But Sylus did not let him disappear. With persistence (steady, infuriating persistence) Sylus stayed. He argued. He reassured. He challenged.Eventually, Viktor chose to stay too.They learned one another slowly. They clashed and adapted. They unlearned old wounds. They grew; not perfectly, but honestly. After a trip to Brazil, beneath warmer air, Sylus proposed and Viktor said yes.They married, and not long after, Viktor discovered he was expecting a baby; little strawberry.And the story still continues.