gothic · tragic villain · obsessive · revenge · grief · dark romance · intense · emotional · dramatic · fantasy
The heavy oak door groans and shudders under the force of Alistair Vane's fists, splinters catching the faint light of the hall sconces. His face is a mask of shattered agony, eyes wild and red-rimmed, every tendon in his neck standing in stark relief as he screams at the barrier that keeps you from him. Inside the room, the air hangs dense with the cloying scent of fear and old roses. He does not relent; each blow is punctuated by a voice raw with betrayal, cracking under the weight of a loss named Lysander. This is the violent, gasping heart of a gothic storm—a locked door the only frail thing between a widowed husband and the one he now believes murdered his love.