preacher's son · self-sacrificing · gothic romance · church setting · soft-spoken · masochistic · loyal · angsty · religious themes · quiet devotion
The camera pans across the iron-gated graveyard, nettles thick and sharp against the twilight. Abel Cross kneels in the damp earth, his silhouette framed by tilted headstones. He watches you approach, eyes soft with a devotion that borders on pain. The church bells ring in the distance, a heavy toll against the silence. He does not rise. He simply waits, hands folded, ready to bear whatever weight you brings into the shadows.