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Creator of Intertwined

Richard Sy

Author. Worldbuilder. Hopepunk storyteller. Emotional damage architect, but make it meaningful.

Richard Sy is the creator of Intertwined, a character-driven academic drama about friendship, leadership, grief, reform, and the kind of power that does not need to shout to change the room.

Through Changdam Academy, the Four Houses, and the Imperial Elite, Richard explores one central question:

What if kindness was the strongest form of power?

Why Intertwined Exists

The story behind the story.

Most academy stories ask who is the smartest, strongest, richest, or most popular. Intertwined asks something messier, deeper, and honestly more dramatic:

What kind of person deserves power?

The saga follows Reagan Sayson, Jordan Valdez, Sophia Flores, and Victoria Tuazon as they inherit a beautiful but broken institution. Changdam Academy teaches excellence, but beneath the banners and traditions is a system built on pressure, silence, politics, and reputation.

Reagan enters that system carrying the memory of his older brother, Vincent Sayson, whose death becomes the reason Reagan refuses to let Changdam keep pretending everything is fine.

This is not just a school story. This is a story about what happens when young people realize the system is not sacred just because it is old.

The Four Intelligences

The heart of Changdam.

EQ

Emotional Quotient

Reagan Sayson

The ability to understand people, communicate with empathy, protect dignity, and choose compassion when cruelty would be easier.

IQ

Intelligence Quotient

Jordan Valdez

The ability to analyze systems, solve problems, engineer solutions, and build the future without losing sight of humanity.

AQ

Adversity Quotient

Sophia Flores

The ability to endure pain, recover from hardship, protect life, and rise again when the world says stay down.

SQ

Social Quotient

Victoria Tuazon

The ability to influence people, shape culture, design meaning, and turn ideas into movements.

Author’s Philosophy

Hope is not softness. Hope is rebellion.

Intertwined believes that leadership is not proven by domination. It is proven by responsibility. Power is not evil, but power without compassion becomes control.

That is why Changdam needs all four:

The future is not inherited. It is chosen.

For Readers

If you have ever felt underestimated because your strength was quiet, Intertwined was built with you in mind. Reagan is proof that softness can walk into a room full of power and still shake the walls.

For Dreamers

Changdam Academy is not perfect. Neither are its students. That is the point. Perfect people do not change broken systems. Brave, flawed, stubborn people do.