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  • The Final Trait

    Chapter by barackobrahma · 01 Feb 2026
  • She didn't just take the life she wanted; she perfected it. Now, the undisputed Queen of Blackwood faces the ultimate test of her new identity.

    Nicholas is no longer a student; she is a natural law—a fusion of devastating beauty and a mind forged in cold ambition. But as she 'holds court' in the sunlight of the university, a ghost from her past lingers in the shadows: a broken, trembling shell of a man inhabiting the body she once called her own.
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  • A few months had solidified the reign of the girl with the boy’s name. Nicholas was no longer just a student at Blackwood… She was the university’s living legend. She was the perfected "Multiple Threat": a fusion of terrifying intellect, Olympian grace, and beauty so devastating it felt like a natural law. Her fortune was the bedrock, but her mind was the crown.

    Her presence didn't just command attention; it rewrote the local reality. When she glided into the quad, conversations died mid-sentence. The girls’ envy was a cold, analytical thing—they didn’t just want her clothes or her skin; they wanted the terrifying certainty she wore like a second scent. The boys’ lust was a form of worship, a silent admission that they were witnessing something categorically beyond them. Nicholas moved through it all with the serene, predatory confidence of a panther in a curated garden. The "weirdo" from the trailer park wasn’t buried; he was a fossil in a strata so deep it no longer mattered.

    The irony of her existence was a private joke she savored daily. It peaked on a Tuesday afternoon in the sun-drenched cafeteria. Nicholas held court at the central table, a queen in cream cashmere, holding a circle of drones in thrall with a deconstruction of post-colonial economic theory. Her gaze, idle and imperial, drifted to the floor-to-ceiling windows.

    Out there, on a cracked concrete slab by the industrial dumpsters, was the punchline.

    There sat Ashley, entombed in the fleshy, sweating prison of Nicholas’s former male body. Huddled in a sour-smelling hoodie, he picked at a congealed tray of food. But his eyes weren’t on his meal. They were locked on her, wide with a shattered, haunting desperation that was almost artistic in its purity.

    Nicholas observed him with a calm detachment. Look at your queendom now, she thought, not with malice, but with the cool satisfaction of a cartographer correcting a flawed map. Ashley’s old domain had been a tiny, fragile thing—a realm of snide remarks from a safe distance, a kingdom built on the petty currency of another’s misery. It was a dollhouse of bitterness. She, by contrast, ruled a continent. Her realm was built on tangible power: the rustle of stock portfolios, the sharp click of her heels on marble, the silent, yielding fear in a professor’s eyes. She hadn’t just taken the body of the girl she’d once desperately desired; …
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