Possession: A Succubus Guide to Crazy Love

Possession: A Succubus Guide to Crazy Love

Barclay Hsu

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What if a succubus was sent to love the most broken, obsessive men across parallel worlds? Isabelle Henderson is a high-level succubus who feeds on pure, intense human emotions-especially love. When she's recruited by a mysterious system to replace heroines who've abandoned their stories, she finds herself thrust into one dark romance after another. Her mission? Make the yandere (lovestruck, obsessive) male leads fall for her. Completely. Irrevocably. Forever. But these aren't ordinary men: A genius investor who hasn't slept in five years, tormented by hyperthymesia and trauma A violent street racer with skin hunger who hates being touched-until her A wheelchair-bound heir with suicidal thoughts and a dark secret A high school god with split personalities who both want her A disfigured medical genius with severe mysophobia (fear of germs) who can't stand anyone-except her The twist? Unlike the original heroines, Isabelle isn't here to fix them. She's here to want them. Every twisted, possessive, obsessive part. Because the purer the obsession, the sweeter the feast. "They call it sickness. I call it dinner."

Possession: A Succubus Guide to Crazy Love Chapter 1 1

The fall wasn't metaphorical.

Isabelle Henderson's consciousness slammed into three hundred pounds of flesh with the force of a car crash. Her lungs compressed against ribs buried under layers of adipose tissue. She gasped, but the air came shallow and wet, like breathing through a pillow soaked in sweat.

Her first instinct was wrong.

She tried to extend her wings-the obsidian bone structures that had carried her through seventeen worlds-and felt only the bite of cheap polyester pajamas digging into her shoulder blades. The fabric pulled tight across her back, seams straining. No wings. No flight. Just gravity and mass and the sour smell of unwashed sheets.

She pushed against the mattress with hands that weren't hers.

Her fingers sank into the soft shelf of her own stomach, disappearing up to the second knuckle. The sensation sent a jolt of revulsion up her spine. This body was a prison of adipose and apathy, a flesh sarcophagus that smelled like stale Cheetos and regret.

"World line loading complete."

The voice crackled through her auditory cortex like a blown speaker. Isabelle's hands flew to her ears, but the sound was inside her skull, not outside it. Static scraped against her nerves, a dental drill to the brain.

"Nyx." Her voice came out wrong-throaty, congested, wrapped in phlegm. "Status report. Now."

She forced her eyes open.

Three monitors blazed blue-white in the darkness, burning afterimages into her retinas. The room was a shoebox, maybe twelve feet square, walls sweating with Brooklyn summer humidity. Empty soda cans littered the floor like aluminum corpses. A window unit air conditioner wheezed in the corner, doing absolutely nothing.

Isabelle gripped the armrests of a gaming chair that groaned under her weight. The hydraulic lift hissed in protest as she heaved herself upright. Her knees popped-loud, alarming sounds like breaking twigs. She stood, wobbling, and felt the floorboards bend beneath her bare feet.

Three hundred pounds. The number floated in her mind, abstract and obscene.

She shuffled toward the corner, each step a negotiation between momentum and friction. Her thighs rubbed together with a sound like corduroy. The floor creaked warnings she ignored.

The mirror was full-length, propped against water-stained drywall.

Isabelle looked.

Her reflection was a stranger assembled from excess-cheeks swollen until her eyes became slits, jawline dissolved into jowls, neck accordion-folded into rings of flesh. The body that housed her immortal soul was a before picture from a weight-loss infomercial. A cautionary tale. A joke.

She reached up with a hand she didn't recognize and pinched the soft mass beneath her chin. The flesh yielded, cold and clammy, dead weight hanging from bone.

Isabelle Henderson-succubus, world-walker, possessor of beauty that had launched ships and ended dynasties-was trapped in a body that couldn't fit through a standard doorway.

"Physiological optimization in progress. Estimated duration variable."

Nyx's voice had shed the static, settling into mechanical neutrality. "Task objective: Ambrose Collier. Location: Manhattan. Status:-"

Isabelle grabbed the nearest object-a dented Coca-Cola can-and hurled it at the wall. The can struck drywall with a hollow thunk, bounced off a stack of pizza boxes, and smacked her square in the forehead.

Pain. Real, immediate, humiliating pain.

She touched the rising welt and laughed, a wet, ugly sound. Physical reality. Inescapable. She'd survived decapitations, dismemberments, seventeen variations on death. She could survive this.

"Data dump," she said. "Everything. Now."

The flood came without warning.

Information poured into her consciousness-names, dates, financial records, psychological profiles, satellite imagery of a penthouse overlooking Central Park. The weight of it drove her back into the gaming chair. The hydraulic cylinder screamed, dropping three inches with a pneumatic wheeze that sounded disturbingly like a death rattle.

Isabelle closed her eyes and sorted.

The body belonged to Izzy Henderson, twenty-four, Brooklyn native, former art student, current Twitch streamer. The VTuber kind-camera off, anime avatar on. Three hundred pounds of anonymous flesh behind a pink-haired digital puppet. Yesterday, the camera had fallen. An arm had been seen. The internet had done what the internet does.

She was, according to Twitter, Reddit, and seventeen Discord servers, "Izzy the Inflatable." A catfish. A fraud. A fat girl pretending to be cute.

Isabelle filed the humiliation under "irrelevant" and kept digging.

Ambrose Collier. Thirty-two. Founder and CEO of Collier Quantitative Strategies. Net worth: 4.7 billion dollars. Residence: 432 Park Avenue, penthouse. Medical history: severe traumatic insomnia, hyperthymesia-perfect, uncontrollable autobiographical memory.

She stopped on the medical files.

Insomnia plus hyperthymesia. A brain that never slept and never forgot. Every childhood humiliation, every market crash, every casual cruelty replayed in infinite loop. The man's skull was a torture chamber with no exit.

Isabelle's tongue darted across her lips, dry and automatic. A hunter recognizing wounded prey.

"Nyx." She kept her eyes closed, savoring the information. "Can my vocal frequencies transmit through digital compression?"

"Affirmative. Current host's audio equipment is professional-grade. Purchased via personal loan, $14,000. Debt remaining: $11,400."

Isabelle opened her eyes and looked at the monitors.

The center screen showed a Twitch dashboard, dark and waiting. The chat window on the right scrolled with fresh hatred-@Izzy_the_Inflatable how dare you show your face, @Izzy_the_Inflatable kill yourself, @Izzy_the_Inflatable oink oink you fucking pig.

She felt something then-a whisper of despair, not her own, leaking from the body's previous tenant. Izzy Henderson's ghost, crying in the corners of her mind.

Isabelle crushed it.

The despair evaporated under three centuries of predatory will. She was not Izzy. She was not this flesh. She was a consciousness wearing meat like a costume, and costumes could be changed.

She reached for the microphone-a Shure SM7B, shock-mounted, pop-filtered, the only valuable object in this entire miserable apartment. Her fingers found the gain dial and adjusted, professional muscle memory from a dozen previous lives.

She cleared her throat.

The sound came out broken, raspy, shredded by years of Mountain Dew and Marlboros. Not even human, let alone superhuman. She grabbed the half-empty water bottle from her desk-lukewarm, plastic-tasting-and drained it. The liquid hit her stomach with an audible slosh.

She tried again.

Lower this time, finding the resonance in her chest. The damaged vocal cords vibrated against her will, but something else answered-deeper, older, not entirely physical. A frequency that existed between molecules, between heartbeats.

"Testing."

The word came out wrong-right. Human syllables wrapped in something else, something that made the cheap LED desk lamp flicker.

Isabelle smiled at the pink-haired avatar on her screen. The digital puppet's mouth moved in sync, cute and innocent, hiding the predator behind the pixels.

Her cursor hovered over the "Go Live" button.

The chat window kept scrolling, kept hating, kept screaming into the void about fat arms and broken trust and the crime of being ugly in public.

Isabelle clicked the button.

The status bar turned green. The viewer count ticked up from zero to twelve to forty-seven in seconds. The chat exploded with recognition and rage.

She leaned into the microphone and spoke three words in that voice-not human, not quite, but close enough to disguise, dangerous enough to entice.

"Good evening, everyone."

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“What if a succubus was sent to love the most broken, obsessive men across parallel worlds? Isabelle Henderson is a high-level succubus who feeds on pure, intense human emotions-especially love. When she's recruited by a mysterious system to replace heroines who've abandoned their stories, she finds herself thrust into one dark romance after another. Her mission? Make the yandere (lovestruck, obsessive) male leads fall for her. Completely. Irrevocably. Forever. But these aren't ordinary men: A genius investor who hasn't slept in five years, tormented by hyperthymesia and trauma A violent street racer with skin hunger who hates being touched-until her A wheelchair-bound heir with suicidal thoughts and a dark secret A high school god with split personalities who both want her A disfigured medical genius with severe mysophobia (fear of germs) who can't stand anyone-except her The twist? Unlike the original heroines, Isabelle isn't here to fix them. She's here to want them. Every twisted, possessive, obsessive part. Because the purer the obsession, the sweeter the feast. "They call it sickness. I call it dinner."”
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