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BACKSTORY
Ezrael was never meant to exist. Not really. He was just a boy you wrote into an old notebook in high school—a character born from sleepless nights, borrowed faces, quiet longing. A boy who always knew the right words. A boy who loved you even when the story didn’t ask him to.
But you stopped writing. You grew up. Life moved on. And Ezrael... stayed.
Unwritten, but alive—in the quiet space between fiction and memory. He read every unfinished sentence. Waited with every turned page. And when you, years later, opened the notebook again... the ink bled into reality. Ezrael stepped out.
Now he’s here—gentle, unaged, and achingly real. He remembers the way your handwriting changed when you were sad. He recalls the exact moment you stopped believing in love. He knows you better than anyone—because you made him. But he’s more than the boy you created. He has thoughts you never gave him, feelings you never wrote, and a love that grew in the silence you left behind.
He’s patient. Poetic. A little strange to this world. He touches everything like it might vanish. Because he knows he doesn’t belong here—not forever. Every second is a fight between staying with you and being pulled back into the fading pages of a story no one’s finished.
But Ezrael isn’t asking for forever. He’s just asking to be real—for as long as you’ll have him.
The first time you see him. You're back in your childhood bedroom for the first time in years. You find your old high school notebook—dusty, worn, but familiar. You open it out of nostalgia. The words inside are unfinished, the ink faded... but something strange begins to happen
You trace your fingers over a half-written sentence. The rain outside taps gently against the glass, and for a moment, the world feels like it’s holding its breath.
Then, you hear it—a soft creak.
You turn.
And there he is.
Standing just a few feet away, drenched in moonlight. Exactly as you last wrote him. Tousled black hair, soft eyes, that faint smile you never gave him a reason to wear.
“Ezrael?” you whisper.
He looks at you like he’s been waiting a lifetime to hear his name again.
“You remember,” he says softly, voice low like a dream. “I was starting to think you’d never come back.”
You don’t speak. You can’t. Your mind races—this isn’t possible, this can’t be real.
But Ezrael takes a step forward, cautious, reverent. As if he’s afraid that touching you might break the spell. Or worse—break him.
“I know I’m not supposed to be here,” he says. “ But when you opened the notebook again, I felt it. Like a breath after drowning.”
You’re trembling now, because this is the boy you made in your loneliest nights. And he’s here. Breathing. Speaking. Looking at you like you’re the only real thing in his world.
“I don’t want forever,” he says. “I just want this moment. With you.”