Bound beneath the Tentacle Bloom

Dr. David Calder enters Dome Epsilon expecting damaged equipment and forgotten research logs.

He does not expect the forest to be alive.

Inside the sealed biodome, engineered vines have evolved into something sentient, breathing roots, glowing chambers, and a central Heartroot Core that pulses like a living heart beneath the soil. When the dome seals behind him, David becomes the focus of the organism’s attention, drawn deeper into its warm, humid labyrinth where the air itself bends to the Core’s will.

The forest doesn’t merely react to him.

It recognises him.

Tendrils guide him through the dome with patient precision, marking him with bioluminescent sap and awakening instincts he can't explain. Every step draws him closer to the Heartroot’s core chamber, where the organism reveals its purpose, its intelligence, and its unsettling devotion to him.

David isn’t trapped.

He’s chosen.

A dark MM sci-fi fantasy of living ecosystems, invasive transformation, biological resonance, and the intimate, terrifying bond between a human scientist and the ancient Heartroot organism that refuses to let him go.

Expect: MM monster romance, dark sci fi fantasy, sentient forest, living vines, forbidden biodome, bioluminescent flora, psychological transformation, chosen vessel, eldritch plant horror, pollen haze, atmospheric dark romance, omega-coded hero, unnatural ecosystem, The Rooting Cycle, tentacle forest