This chapter is not aesthetic, but only here as an extra.

The full version is on Inkspired first if you want to read ahead. This is the long chapter version with one fewer named character, and eight less than the current version of Darkness and Beauty. It has major plot differences from Darkness, and the side characters were renamed for clarity. The main pregnancy plot has been removed.

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Cast of Characters:

Quig Curie-Lock Hayworth — Author and professor.

Grew-Ella Eliot — Professor, editor, and Quig's closest friend.

Dot Curie-Lock — Quig's half sister, florist, and Kindness Rebel.

Prince Chase Vice — Royal model, actor, and Grew-Ella's friend and her ex-boyfriend.

Zoreon Kiffed — The King and workhouse leader. Is close to Grew-Ella's sister.

Phyllis Eliot — Supermodel and Grew-Ella's much older sister.

Betsy T. Curie-Lock Hayworth — Quig's adopted daughter.

Yoleta The Executioner— Government executioner and candidate for prime minister. Dean Frog's ex-wife.

Avery B. Hayworth — Journalism professor, university reporter, and former queen. Quig's foster mother.

Prime Minister Silvan-Mack — Struggling to retain power and Junior's father.

Nurse Ruby — Dot's girlfriend.

Rodrick Jones — Dot and Quig's secret father. Works for the government.

Dean Ghoul Frog — Time traveler. The dean of the university. Formal space colonel and a shapeshifter.

Lana Rake — Leader over marriage laws.

Tiffany G. Hempstead — a badged woman and Chase's former girlfriend.

Junior — Kindness Rebel candidate for prime minister.

Madd-Ox Eliot — Grew-Ella's brother, works for Yoleta, and is Junior's closest friend.

Ida Web-Song — Quig's oldest sister, fake medium, a Chosen One, and Betsy's birth mother.

Karen Eliot — Grew-Ella's mother.

Workhouse Leader Voltaire — Beauty pageant host, represents the workhouse leaders and is a candidate for prime minister.

Magpie — Betsy's friend, and a preschooler. Grew-Ella has been trying to foster her.

Noel — Beauty Contestant, Dot's full brother and Quig's half.

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Synopses:

Never say I love you. If Grew-Ella tells her best friend, Quig, she loves him, they'll come for her, or worse, him.

Quig and Grew-Ella have been one step ahead of the system, but one wrong move could lead to a fight-to-the-death beauty contest or a workhouse prison for his minor daughter.

For Quig, rejection can be fatal. When his fiancée abandoned him at the altar for the king, he needed to come up with a survival plan, but that plan might include his sister, Dot, and Grew-Ella's ex, Chase.

Their secrets are tested when Grew-Ella saves his life, but who will save her from her sister and the sinister evil that lurks behind her plastic smile?

Chase is becoming self-aware that time is warping around him, and all he wants is to end the cruel games Grew-Ella's sister is forcing him to play.

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King and Queen:

Queen and King are crowned in a fight-to-death beauty contest every ten years.

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Status List: Even Unlisted:

Prime Minister

King and Queen

Grand elite princes, and princes

The beautiful ones also known as Grand Elite government officials

Squad members

Grand Elite dukes, duchesses, count, and countesses

Grand Elite celebrities

Full elites

Village or common princesses, and princes

Common elites

Broken elites

Sub elites

Acceptable

Common citizen

Homeless

Unacceptable women and reject men one

Unacceptable women and reject men two

Workhouse laborer green

Workhouse prisoner green

Workhouse labor orange

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Planet Name:

Glass Earth 10

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Kingdom:

Moth Kingdom

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Elite Clothing Colors:

Gold, black, blue, white, pink.

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Clothing Colors for non-elites:

Muted green, beige, orange.

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No Artificial Intelligence was used in Janky's writing other than basic spelling and grammar checkers before it was handed to editors and beta readers. Mrs. Fluffy is just naturally weird.

Any grammar issues left were caused by time travelers and brain gremlins.

Thoughts are separated by single quotation marks. 'Hi.' This is to make reading easier because italics are difficult for neurodivergent readers to see.

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Select characters were created in 2000.

Dedication: For my family. If you recognize anyone in this fictionalized novel, you have a strange imagination.

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Warnings: This is not a trigger warning, but a content warning.

The book contains no spicy times and is not mature. If you are looking for explicit fiction, this isn't it.

It's fade-to-black.

Content warnings: If you're traumatized by fiction with a lack of spicy times, you've been warned. Conform or Suffer is a 14+ fade-to-black with mild innuendo.

There are fertility struggles, executions, abuse, trauma, rainbow babies, and mentions of human trafficking.

The main romance is straight, but the secondary relationship is about a lesbian couple. The author is a Christian, and a loved one requested wholesome LGBTQ+ characters that didn't die.

This book is also on Inkspired and the difference is that Inkspired has one more character.

The old version of this novel is now called Darkness of Beauty, and it's set in another universe.

The first book is titled Uglier, and it originated on Kobo and Barnes & Noble but can be found on Inkspired and Wattpad. Each book can be read as a standalone.

A Note From Grew-Ella

Janky begged me to write this, and I couldn't say no to a friend.

This is the Inkspired special edition, and Inkspired will get this version before it's posted on any other platform.

If you enjoyed any chapters, give a four-star or five-star review, but here is the strange part.

We are very different people.

Biography

Janky Fluffy is a wife, mother, and cosplayer, and she may or may not be a character.

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For synopses:

Synopses

Never say I love you. If Grew-Ella tells her best friend, Quig, she loves him, they'll come for her, or worse, him.

Quig and Grew-Ella have been one step ahead of the system, but one wrong move could lead to a fight-to-the-death beauty contest or a workhouse prison for his minor daughter.

Long chapter version has one less character, longer chapters, longer sentences, bounces scenes, and some name changes.

Cast of Characters

Quig Curie-Lock Hayworth — Author and professor.

Grew-Ella Eliot — Professor, editor, and Quig's closest friend.

Dot Curie-Lock — Quig's half sister, florist, and Kindness Rebel.

Prince Chase Vice — Royal model, actor, and Grew-Ella's friend and her ex-boyfriend.

Zoreon Kiffed — The King and workhouse leader. Is close to Grew-Ella's sister.

Phyllis Eliot — Supermodel and Grew-Ella's much older sister.

Betsy T. Curie-Lock Hayworth — Quig's adopted daughter.

Yoleta The Executioner— Government executioner and candidate for prime minister. Dean Frog's ex-wife.

Avery B. Hayworth — Journalism professor, university reporter, and former queen. Quig's foster mother.

Prime Minister Silvan-Mack — Struggling to retain power and Junior's adopted father.

Nurse Ruby — Dot's girlfriend.

Rodrick Jones — Dot and Quig's secret father. Works for the government.

Dean Ghoul Frog — Time traveler. The dean of the university. Formal space colonel and a shapeshifter.

Lana Rake — Leader over marriage laws.

Junior — Kindness Rebel candidate for prime minister.

Madd-Ox Eliot — Grew-Ella's brother, works for Yoleta, and is Junior's closest friend.

Ida Web-Song — Quig's oldest sister, fake medium, a Chosen One, and Betsy's birth mother.

Tiffany G. Hempstead — a badged woman and Chase's former girlfriend.

Karen Eliot — Grew-Ella's mother.

Workhouse Leader Voltaire — Beauty pageant host, represents the workhouse leaders and is a candidate for prime minister.

Magpie — Betsy's friend, and a preschooler. Grew-Ella has been trying to foster her.

Noel — Beauty Contestant, Dot's full brother and Quig's half.