God of Malice

Content Warning: This section features discussions of sexual violence and harassment, rape, ableism, mental illness, death by suicide, suicidal ideation and self-harm, animal cruelty and death, substance use, addiction, graphic violence, sexual content, cursing, illness and death, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

A few weeks after her close friend Devlin’s suspected death by suicide, Glyndon King leaves her family’s home in London to go to the cliffs Devlin drove his car off of. She contemplates stepping off the cliff herself, but before she can, she slips. A man she hadn’t noticed catches her but lets her dangle over the edge long before pulling her up, and Glyndon realizes that he has been photographing her. When the man pulls the camera away from his face, Glyndon notices that he’s stunningly beautiful but seems effortlessly cold, without any feeling behind his eyes. The man mentions that the picture he just took of Glyndon will make a good addition to his collection after her death, and he begins to let her go again before she grabs onto him. Desperate, Glyndon bargains for her life, offering to do whatever he wants if he helps her. He saves her but keeps her on the cliff’s edge, forcing her down on her knees to perform oral sex on him.