Do you ever think about how nothing we do actually matters in the grand scheme of things?

Yes. Often. It is why I drink.

We’re just tiny, insignificant specks in an infinite universe!
And yet, we still fall in love, still write poetry, still suffer as if any of it actually means something!

The Resistance & The War Effort

They live in an occupied European country—maybe France, Belgium, or the Netherlands—somewhere cultured but caught in the chokehold of war. They don't start out intending to be heroes, but war has a way of pulling people in, whether they like it or not.
Eleanor "Ellie" Duvall – The Archivist-Turned-Propagandist
Ellie starts out trying to preserve old films and literature, desperate to keep art alive as the world crumbles. But as censorship tightens, she finds herself secretly printing resistance pamphlets, smuggling banned books, and using coded messages in classic film references to pass information. She learns to navigate the underground networks, using her wit and charm to spread hope through words. When the war is over, she is one of the voices that helps reclaim the cultural memory that fascism tried to erase.
Raven "Ray" Sinclair – The Forger & Underground Artist
Ray’s talent with ink and paper makes them a natural forger, creating fake documents, ration cards, and ID papers for those trying to escape. Their artistic skills are also put to use in graffiti—messages scrawled on walls at night, mocking the regime, spreading coded resistance symbols. They start out skeptical, but as they see what’s happening to people around them, they throw themselves into the fight with quiet, determined fury. Their art becomes both a weapon and a record of the war’s horrors.
Elias Mercer – The Codebreaker & Interrogation Expert
With his fascination for languages and psychology, Elias is drawn into intelligence work. He starts off translating intercepted messages but soon realizes he has a gift for reading people. He becomes invaluable in interrogations—not through force, but through manipulation and persuasion. He is haunted by the moral ambiguity of his work, knowing that every lie he tells, every game he plays with an enemy's mind, could save or cost lives. After the war, he will never quite reconcile who he had to become.
Elias "Eli" Varen – The Spy & Survivor
Eli is the one who disappears for long stretches, slipping into dangerous places to gather information. They are the kind of person who walks into a room and makes people uneasy without knowing why. Their ability to read a situation, adapt, and manipulate their way out of trouble makes them a natural spy, but they take on the most dangerous missions—living in enemy-occupied areas, passing as one of them, walking the tightrope between deception and death. They return home with more scars than they left with, both physical and psychological.
Alex – The Rebel Broadcaster & War Poet
Alex’s voice becomes a weapon. They start off writing anti-fascist poetry, but when the resistance takes notice, they become the voice of an underground radio station, broadcasting banned news, coded messages, and words of defiance. Their sharp wit and ability to cut to the heart of things make them both a beacon of hope and a target. They know they will likely not survive if they are caught, but they refuse to let silence win.
Séraphine "Sera" Vail – The War Correspondent & Smuggler
Sera moves between frontlines, occupied cities, and resistance networks, documenting what the war is doing to people. She is the one who helps refugees escape, ferrying information, medicine, and sometimes even people across borders. Her camera and her notebooks are filled with the kind of truths that those in power want to erase. She sees the worst of humanity but refuses to let history be rewritten by the victors.
How They End Up
Some of them survive, but not all. War doesn't let everyone walk away clean.
Ellie survives, but her idealism is forever shaken. She writes, but now it is with the weight of what was lost.
Ray makes it, though their hands will never be clean again. They disappear into quiet art, away from the world.

Elias Mercer lives, but he is never the same. He will spend the rest of his life trying to understand the war through philosophy, knowing full well that some questions don’t have answers.
Eli disappears after the war. Some say they died on their last mission, others say they simply couldn't live in peacetime after everything they did.
Alex is captured near the end of the war. Their final broadcast is cut short mid-sentence. No one knows exactly what happened to them. Their words, however, live on.
Sera survives, but barely. She carries the war in her bones, spending the rest of her life ensuring no one forgets the stories she wrote.
This is a story about people who never planned to be heroes but became legends in the process. Some were remembered, some were lost, but all of them changed history.
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