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• The Kintsugi Department by PyromaniacFirefighter

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen, F/M
  • Work in Progress

  30 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Original Female Character(s)/Original Male Character(s)
  • Original Female Character(s) & Original Female Character(s)
  • Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)
  • Original Characters
  • Dark Academia
  • Psychological Drama
  • Teacher-Student Relationship
  • Power Imbalance
  • Manipulation
  • Gaslighting
  • Cult dynamics
  • Morally Grey Characters
  • Angst
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Unreliable Narrator(s)
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Trauma
  • Everyone Needs A Hug
  • Smart Characters Doing Dumb Things
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • Psychological Torture
  • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Codependency
  • Power Dynamics
  • Ensemble Cast
  • POV First Person
  • POV Alternating
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Psychological Trauma
  • Found Family
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Enemies to Friends

  Summary

  Welcome to Art History 201. The syllabus is a lie. The final project are the students themselves.

  Professor Gavin Lockwood has a theory: When therapy is a bureaucratic nightmare, a good old existential crisis can be a work of art. For the next year, he's going to be his students’ teacher, father, the other type of father, confessor, senpai, and even their own personal, walking nervous breakdown. He's going to find the cracks in their souls and pour gold into them until they’re either a masterpiece or a goddamn mess. (Probably both).

  He's building a tribe. A kingdom. A dysfunctional family of geniuses and fuck-ups. And he's got a spot saved just for you.
  Told from the shifting POVs of the ten students who signed up for a grade and ended up in a cult (or a really, really intense found family, the jury's still out), The Kintsugi Department is a dark academia thriller that asks one simple question: What if the one man who is uniquely qualified to save you from your own bullshit is also the most dangerous, manipulative, magnificent bastard you’ve ever met? What if the monster you’re trying to stop is helping you stop him? What if the villain is the only thing keeping the heroes alive?

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Kintsugi Department

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,239

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

  3

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  130