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OriCat
Since: Jul, 2017
15th Dec, 2018 10:23:48 AM
Never mind guys, I found it! It was called The Iron Thorn.
The protagonist is a mid-teens girl, but her older brother, who takes care of her after their parents died, has disappeared. She eventually finds this other boy, gets taken to a castle/mansion place, gets attacked by some kind of monster, but it turns out her brother isn’t dead after all. I remember really vividly the first scene where she and her girlfriends are watching a criminal get publically “castigated” with a machine that scalds his hands, and it makes her throw up. Also she has a scar on her neck, I think from where her mother tried to kill her... As I said, it’s really steampunk. They end with the girl and the boy taking an air balloon/blimp thing to I think some other plane of existence...