diff --git a/desktopenvs/hyprland/vicinae/vicinae/settings.json b/desktopenvs/hyprland/vicinae/settings.json
similarity index 100%
rename from desktopenvs/hyprland/vicinae/vicinae/settings.json
rename to desktopenvs/hyprland/vicinae/settings.json
diff --git a/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/hyprland.sh b/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/hyprland.sh
index 27df8c3..ba8abbe 100755
--- a/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/hyprland.sh
+++ b/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/hyprland.sh
@@ -321,6 +321,15 @@ for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
     cp -r ~/Dotfiles/desktopenvs/hyprland/"$cfg" ~/.config/
 done
 
+# Vicinae loads NAMED custom themes only from ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes/*.toml,
+# NOT from ~/.config/vicinae/. The cyberqueer.toml copied above lands in the
+# config dir where Vicinae never looks, so settings.json's
+# theme.dark.name="cyberqueer" silently falls back to the stock dark theme.
+# Deploy the theme where Vicinae actually scans so the named theme resolves.
+mkdir -p ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes
+cp -f ~/Dotfiles/desktopenvs/hyprland/vicinae/cyberqueer.toml \
+      ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes/cyberqueer.toml
+
 # hypr-usr/ holds device-specific overrides (monitor layout, keybinds, envvars).
 # In the legacy hyprlang setup these are .conf files at the ~/.config/ root
 # level; hyprland.conf sources them with 'source = ~/.config/monitors.conf' etc.
diff --git a/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/niri.sh b/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/niri.sh
index 2e9d52a..45db923 100755
--- a/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/niri.sh
+++ b/setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/niri.sh
@@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
     cp -rL ~/Dotfiles/desktopenvs/niri/"$cfg" ~/.config/
 done
 
+# Vicinae loads NAMED custom themes only from ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes/*.toml,
+# NOT from ~/.config/vicinae/. The cyberqueer.toml copied above (niri/vicinae is a
+# symlink to hyprlua/vicinae) lands in the config dir where Vicinae never looks, so
+# settings.json's theme.dark.name="cyberqueer" silently falls back to the stock
+# dark theme. Deploy the theme where Vicinae actually scans so it resolves.
+mkdir -p ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes
+cp -f ~/Dotfiles/desktopenvs/niri/vicinae/cyberqueer.toml \
+      ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes/cyberqueer.toml
+
 cp ~/Dotfiles/colors.conf ~/.config/colors.conf
 
 # 10. greetd — deploy niri session config