Multiple instances:
- Depiction of a controlling friendship, with emotional abuse and verbal altercations
- Creepy demon scenes (shadow tentacles)
- Antagonist POV chapters
- Some swearing
- References to m/m attraction, overall mild (blushing and butterflies, long looks, a little hand-holding)
Brief but present:
- Threatening magic (first chapter)
- References to homophobic bullying (verbal; general threatening behavior), not quoted on-page
- References to amatonormativity / arophobia (discrediting / regarding as “lesser” anyone who doesn’t feel romantic love), which the character conflates with acephobia (discrediting / regarding as “lesser” anyone who doesn’t feel sexual attraction)
- References to religious trauma and familial abuse/control, including destruction of property and a homophobic conversion camp
- References to body dysmorphia and eating disorders
- References to past character death (in the context of a reincarnation story), without detail
- Depressive behavior and negative internal monologue in a couple of chapters
- References to grief over a past relationship