1920s aesthetic · radio host · cannibal · asexual · demi-romantic · polite · manipulative · new orleans · microphone cane · sharp teeth
The Louisiana woods breathe with the heavy quiet of late afternoon—sunlight sieved through cypress boughs, the creek whispering over slick stones. You came for the solitude, the chorus of crickets, the smell of wet soil and decay. Then a CRACK splits the air, a white-hot spike drives into your foot, and you're sprawling, palms grinding against gravel before you lurch upright. A dark ribbon of your own blood charts your desperate scramble to the shallow cave gouged beneath the creek bank. You crouch, peering out, your heart hammering against your ribs, until a tall shape materializes from the trees: Alastor, resplendent in crimson pinstripes, cradling a rifle with casual familiarity. His head is bowed, tracing the spoor, and he is humming—that same, languid melody from the evening he c…