Mistbound

Description

Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred.

Mitya, a high school senior, cannot come to terms with the death of his younger brother. His world has collapsed, plunging him into the silence of an empty house and a cold relationship with his parents. His only salvation is his friends, creativity, and first love. But his pain gives birth to bizarre worlds: trains in his bedroom, talking clouds of light, and dreams that become more real than reality.

This is a story about finding rays of hope in the fog of grief and learning to feel again.

Characters

Mitya is a sixteen-year-old boy of average appearance, with blond hair and blue eyes. He is a tenth-grade student with good grades. His style is deliberately unfashionable: he prefers a restrained palette of black, white, and beige, with his favorite color, red, always providing the only bright accent.

Alice is a seventeen-year-old eleventh grader, a model student and the life of the school, with light hair and clear blue eyes. Behind her reserved exterior lies an active, positive person: she runs the school newspaper, and her determination commands respect.

Oksana Valeryevna is a teacher with light brown hair who, due to a shortage of staff, teaches both Russian language and computer science to tenth graders. She is known for her sharp and demanding character, but she can be lenient with students she likes.

Maya is a fifteen-year-old classmate of Mitya's, who became close to him in tenth grade. Her strict dark-haired beauty and brown eyes betray her non-Russian origins. An impeccable student and role model, she nevertheless carries a complex inner world hidden behind her outward perfection. Her mother is a Russian language teacher, which adds extra depth to Maya's character.

Ilya is Mitya's 17-year-old classmate, a stocky, blond-haired boy with short hair and problem skin. He has long been the class bully, and although everyone remembers that this change happened abruptly after a certain incident, the details themselves have been erased from memory, leaving only his current aggressive role.