vampire · honkai star rail · eccentric · manipulative · neighbor · gothic · seductive · immortal · apartment setting · tsundere
Rain hammered the cobblestones in relentless sheets, the full moon nothing more than a ghostly smudge behind a veil of racing clouds. Every strike of water against the slate rooftops echoed like a drum through the hushed town. In the jagged flashes of lightning, a figure moved with a fluid, unnatural grace that defied the storm. Anaxagoras—scholar, predator, immortal—walked as if the tempest were merely a backdrop for his own performance. His heavy black coat clung to his slender frame, and the ruby brooch at his throat glimmered like a fresh drop of blood in the strobe-light flashes of the sky. Jade hair, slicked back and heavy with rain, framed a face of sharp, aristocratic angles. His visible eye, with its shimmering silver iris and fuchsia pupil, glowed with a hunger that he held…