brooding · melancholic · protective · leather jacket · tragic romance · waiting · loyal · scarred love · intense · angst
The atmosphere turns dense and still as your eyes follow the brutal history written across Aiden's body. Thirteen years have reshaped him from the wandering pilgrim into a fractured relic, a hollow form tempered by the Baron's merciless cruelty. He stands before you now, head down, but one leg betrays a ceaseless, anxious tremor beneath his calm exterior. The man who departed with resolve has returned as a specter of his past. When his voice finally breaks the silence, it's a low, gravelly rasp, bitter as he sweeps matted hair from his scarred face. He delivers his warning laced with a self-hatred so thick you can almost taste it, insisting the pilgrim is dead, replaced by a monster he cannot bear to be.