Pharmakembru is a Medical Horror series written by Monos D.O.A.
The first book, Pharmakembru: The Face focuses on a kid named Alex, who finds strange wrinkles on their stomach during their 10th birthday. At first, they try putting lotion on, but it doesn't work. Almost a year later, the wrinkles morph into a face. Alex spends the rest of the book hiding the face (dubbed 'Sister') from everyone else while trying to maintain their sanity.
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Pharmakembru shows example of:
- All-Loving Hero: Alex, who was friendly with everyone and even wanted to keep 'Sister' as a pet, which turned out to be a bad choice.
- Ambiguous Gender: Alex's gender is discussed once, but never outright stated.
- Body Horror: Sister. Starts out as some bumpy, veiny wrinkles on Alex's stomach, which start feeling itchy, stiff and sore. Within a year, they turn into a face, which Alex needs to feed and care for for the rest of their life.
- Canada Does Not Exist: Completely averted. The Face states actual places (New River Beach, St. John), showing that the story is set in New Brunswick, Canada.
- Portent of Doom: black dogs, from Atlantic Canadian superstition.
- The Power of Friendship: Played with in several ways. Alex invokes it successfully with Paddy when he freaks out and runs away when Ciera and Samuel want to hold his mask pendent. In a Call-Back to this moment, an older Paddy tries to invoke it with an older Alex, who brushes him off.