Don't Cry For Me is a fantasy story set in a low-magic world. The world is a cruel place, and most intend just to survive. You want to thrive.
Play as the second child of the greatest general that the Empire of Dacian has seen in a generation. However, to your father's dismay, you are a daughter rather than a son. His dismay only deepens when you are followed by your twin sister.
Your childhood is a happy one, despite your father's disappointment with your sex and your mother's resentment. You played with your siblings and friends. You even got to meet the royal family.
When Emperor Velen is overthrown, you are a month off from turning eighteen. A barbarian, Cahir of Leofrey, takes the throne and ten days after your birthday, your sister and you are summoned to serve as concubines.
How will you cope when you are hiding a secret? That a voice plagues you most days and nights, urging you to do things that ought not be spoken about? Will you be able to claw your way to power?
Play as a young woman whose fate you control.
Customize your character, and her family as a result.
Enter the palace and capture the eyes of the most powerful people in the realm, or rebuke tradition and stay true to your heart.
Gain power for yourself or for the benefit of those you care about.
Choose to let your heart, your brain, or both to guide you in relationships with the Emperor, the Empress, your childhood friend, and a mysterious figure.
Discover where the voice that haunts you comes from...
All have their cons. Some have their pros... Perhaps one of them will help you get to where you want to be.
Emperor Cahir of Leofrey
A barbarian. He stole the emperor's throne and desecrates the legacy of those who came before him by keeping the company of witches and warlocks. He killed the entire royal family, save the eldest daughter, who is now his empress.
Appearance: Cahir stands at 6'3' (190 cm). He has platinum blond hair that only reaches his ears. His skin is pale, and he has icy blue eyes that make him look unnerving. He is thirteen years older than the MC.
Empress Sirin Daken
The eldest and favorite child of the Fourth Daken Emperor. After Emperor Cahir killed Emperor Velen and his son on the field of battle, he took Sirin as his wife to give his reign legitmacy. As expected, she hates him and wears black to show mourning for the family her husband killed.
Appearance: Sirin is a tall woman, standing at 5'7" (170 cm). Her long, glossy black hair is unstyled and her tanned skin is flawless. Her dark brown eyes seem empty. She is six years older than the MC.
Yves/Yve
Y has always been a friend to you. Whether that is all they are, or if they are an adopted sibling or a bastard of your father is up to you.
(Note: If female, Yve will pretend to be a man to join you in the palace.)
Appearance: Y is tall, standing at 5'9" (175 cm) if female and 6'1 (185 cm) if male. They have shoulder length brown hair, piercing green eyes, and dark olive skin. They are one year older than the MC.
???
Is there anything to say about a man you do not know?
Family is important, isn't it? After all, your family may be all you have to fall back on.
Kaiyan, Your Father
Your father is a hard man to know. He spends almost of his time at home with your brothers. Is it regret that flickers in his eys when the Emperor Cahir summons you?
Asya, Your Mother
Your mother is prone to melancholy and her health is frail. She turns to witches to regain her health and retain her beauty. She blames Suna and you for her illnesses and Lukhan's condition.
Tian, Your Elder Brother
Your elder brother and your father's perfect son. He is shaping up to be a talented soldier, but can he live up to your father's legacy?
Suna, Your Sister
Your identical twin sister. She is content to follow your lead. Whether she is a welcome follower or not, you are the person she relies on the most.
Lukhan, Your Younger Brother
Your younger brother inherited some of your mother's frality. He is smart, but rarely tries to use his mind. Sometimes you wonder if he hides behind his health as a shield.
This story is an incredibly dark one. Content Warnings include the discussion of miscarriages, child abuse (and the discussion of it), misogyny, and optional incest with an adopted sibling or a half-sibling (there is a choice to be unrelated). There will be more Content Warnings added as the story progresses and will have a dedicated screen in the Demo.
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They say that small towns hide the darkest secrets. At least that’s what your mother always said about this one. You thought she meant how Father Simmons has a well-known drinking problem, how Mrs. Gladstone’s son looks more like his uncle than his father or that the mayor has been in power for 15 years because of voting fraud. Things everyone knows. Human Things.
But now as partially eaten bodies have been left in alarmingly rates all over this small town the world has no record of, you now know she meant something else.
Play as peculiar and disturbed individual surnamed Crown after the very town your ancestor founded, returning after a traumatic event two years prior that landed you in a psychiatric hospital. As your comeback coincides with a rapid increase of disappearances you find yourself embroiled in a town conspiracy, a past that’s more alive than ever and the ever shifting self interested motives of those who claim to be your allies.
Who can you trust? What’s the truth behind your family? What are things that you see in the dark?
Sometimes it’s hard to tell what shapes monsters come in.
Customize your MC from looks to gender
Reveal your sister’s disappearance
Rely on a group of complimentary polar opposites to find out the mystery and save your life
Befriend or romance a choice of three from enemies to lovers, childhood friends or an eternal admirer
Rating: 18+
Crown - Playlist
You. A person with some personal issues, some family issues and some murder issues.
Imre Duran - Playlist
Quintessential good-boy-next-door. The most most-liked teenager in town. As son of the mayor and pageant queen, Imre has an image cultivated by him and maintained through his status which is why his back door activities are his cherished secrets. He is rather eager to help you… isn’t he?
Nia Mir - Playlist
In the very real and present high school hierarchy Nia would be one of the nobles. As a wannabe doctor with a loathed father and an absent mother her dream is to leave behind this backwater town and all it’s weird phenomena that she doesn’t care to know more of. She liked you, once.
Lorcan Stark - Playlist
Every town needs its bad boy and so Lorcan has aimed to be as every bit worthy of that title. The shunned son of a murderer and his victim, he is not really thought of as having a future beyond prison and petty crime especially in a town like this. You don’t remember a time when he didn’t hate you.
Salvatore Crown
Your brother. The heir to whatever fortune your family has left and the only one of the family who seems to like you.
Orla Crown - Playlist
Your sister. No one ever knew what she thinking, a closed box full of unknowns. You knew she kept things, especially from you.
Mayor Duran
Seems like every other politician. Oddly enough no one ever really sees him, an entity watching over the town.
Mother
She never acted like one to any of her children. She’s never sober anymore.
Mrs. Mir
Disappeared years ago without a trance. No one remembers her first name. Was thought to have been clinically insane.
Ladies, gentlemen and other folk who see themselves outside those groups, please be advised! This is not for the faint of heart. TW: racism, sexism, bigotry, parental abuse, exploitation, alcoholism, smoking, swearing, sexually explicit content. Very much of the time period.
After a life of general obscurity, in 1937 you come out of hiding to star in the biggest production in Hollywood history. Hopefully, your own demons, those imagined and those very much real don't tear you apart before the closing scene!
Greer Monroe 🎭
Your co-star. With beginnings in comedy, he's trying to be seen as a serious actor. He's everything a person believes a leading man to be. 29 years old.
Sexuality: he's an actor, of course he's had gay sex men or women.
Magenta Wey 💎
Your other co-star. After a recent... scandal she's seeking to move past that event with a new role. A classic blonde bombshell. 30 25 years old.
Sexuality: women.
Jack Harlow🎙️
A singer. Wishes he could sing his own songs instead of giving the best ones to bigger artists. Handsome in his way, just not as flashy as those on the screen. 27 years old.
Sexuality: men.
Ashley Booker 📽️
The director. Hit it out of the park five years before and after a serious of failures, seeks to make a comeback. Everyone says Ash is good-looking, but Ash doesn't like the image in the mirror. 32 years old.
Sexuality: is partial to women but is curious about men. Trans women. Pronouns: he/she/they
Renata (?) 💋
At all the major parties but no one can say much about her. She comes with a retinue or girls and leaves with them. Apart even within a group, and seems uninterested in the glamour of Hollywood. Whispers say she’s a lady of the night. Looks to be in her early 30s.
Sexuality: bisexual. Demisexual and aromantic.
You ✨
Your middle name is Sky. Do you want to be famous? Is it to fill the void inside? It's far too late to make anyone proud.
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Prologue and chapter 1 released.
Also if you could reblog that would help a lot :)
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Check out my other IFs: We Wretched Creatures, Excellent Cadavers
This interactive fiction novel is intended for mature audiences, reader discretion is advised. TW: blood, death, sexually explicit content, bigotry, drugs, weapons, torture, extortion, abuse.
"They got it wrong you see, it's not like in the movies. To be born into this kind of life you have to be able to look someone in the eye and shoot without hesitating."
"Can you do that, Luce?"
Born into a life of privilege, you’ve always had everything you could have ever possibly needed. A perfect life, kept away from the violence inherent within the family business. That is, you were.
When everything crumbles around you, will what will you do? Get revenge or justice? Honour your last name or betray it? Fall in love with who you shouldn’t or sleep your way through your emotional turmoil?
Will you survive… intact?
Dante Greco: the heir of your father's "friend's" rival family. 25 years old. Ruthless, trigger-happy, obsessive and brutal. RO. Playlist
Carmen Greco: the eldest daughter of the rival family who should've been heir. 26 years old. Charming, frivolous, envious and merciless. RO. Playlist
Lazlo Fisher: your father's official heir. Not your brother, almost viewed your father as his, but he never thought of you as family. 21 years old. Kind, strong, tormented and distant. RO. Playlist
Charlotte "Charley" Das: assigned to you to be your bodyguard three years ago. 28 years old. Precise, fair, loyal and protective. RO. Playlist
Samuel/Samantha "Sam" Flight: your fiancé/e.
Alex Luther: 40 years old. A good friend to Charley and perhaps to you. Situationship.
"Luce": that's you. Almost 23. Normal-ish. Arrogant. Playlist
Note: all ROs are red flags (as in some are very, very, bad. Romance at your own risk.)
Also if you could reblog that would help a lot :)
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Last public update: July 10th, 2026
Public version: Prologue, Chapters 1-2
Last Patreon update: June 25th, 2026
Patreon version: Prologue, Chapters 1-2
Check out my other IFs: We Wretched Creatures, O, Your Heavenly Stars!
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Don't Cry For Me is the working title of the interactive fiction novel I am working on.
The Empire of Dacian has been ruled for the last one hundred and twenty-three years by the Daken Royal Family. In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of the Fourth Daken Emperor, a barbarian king began his war to take the Empire for himself.
During the thirty-second year of the reign of the Fourth Daken Emperor, he succeeds.
Your father, a fierce supporter of the Fourth Emperor, is told he must send both his daughters to serve the new Emperor as his concubines ten days after your and your twin sister's eighteenth birthday.
There's a voice in your head, and it won't go away.
This story will be incredibly dark. It is not for the faint of heart. The main character is female. There will be no gender choice.
It is for those who are over 18 only.
All of the ROs are red flags.
Cahir, the Emperor. Your husband, so to speak.
Sirin, the Empress. Your trainer and the daughter of the former emperor.
Yves/Yve, the Knight. Your childhood friend and sworn protector.
???, the ???. He has ceased to be a person. All he is is vengeance.
I will create a proper introduction post in the future, along with a link to the DEMO when it is available.
