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I think Illumi Zoldyck is a very complex character and my fanfic (Where Shadows Touch) is my way of exploring him. It's part character analysis and personal headcanons; a boy who was brought up to be a merciless killer but listens to Florence & The Machine for hours in his room, has a gifted mind in the natural sciences that manifested into collecting bones and moss and teeth in glass boxes stashed underneath his bed, and a voracious appettite of the macabre through books and movies to such a degree that it would even give R.L Stine a fright. And, most definitely, believed he deserved fangs ever since he was a young boy, and still does.

In this fic, I wanted to craft Illumi as his own person, and that he is so much more than the emotionless robot like what he is percieved to be. We see him laugh and smile and have an undying love for his family---though warped and dangerously obsessive. My fic is my attempt to answer why that is and how he is the man who he is today because he was born a Zoldyck and what that meant for his upbringing, as well as for the rest of his siblings as they all play crucial roles in this fic, just as they do in each others lives. Watching the anime, in ARCS where Gon and Killua are off on adventures, I always wondered what Illumi was doing during those absences. I wrote this fic to give myself that answer.

As for my female lead, Psyche Moiraio, I knew immediately that she has a strong moral compass, that is broken and irreparably beyond repair. I wanted a girl whose strong convinctions allowed her to stand on her own. An assassin in her own right, who believes she is capable of committing atrocities, but also good. She is a merciless killer, but a romantic at heart. This fic is just as much about her as it is about Illumi. At its core, it's about two broken people, that hopefully become a little more whole together. If they can overcome their own internal battles, learn that their abuse does not define them, and allow their truest selves to be vulnerable, seen, and accepted without judgement. And above all loved.

We are our most bravest selves in the shadows. That is the crux of Where Shadows Touch.

I hope, dear reader, that you give this fic a chance.

(This fic is also erotica!)