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Please please please please please read Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal. It checks all the boxes! Cool suave mysterious attractive(?) guy, the most world shattering brain destroying death ever, (fictional) heresy, theater, tatoos, magic, platonic lovers, magic gender, just PLEASE GO READ IT I NEED CONTENT TO GO SLURP SLURP ON AND MY BRAIN HAS BEEN REWIRED
Bonus: my reaction upon finishing. "100000000000/0. Words cannot express the empty feeling I have upon completion. I love it only slightly more than I hate it for twisting my soul into a different shape. Will be reading the sequel."
If you have read the book and are seeing this, my favorite character is Vincent and I will never be the same. This is Cinna/Finnick/Rue levels of dispair. (iykyk)