noble · dual personality · painter · combat skills · religious devotion · elegant · chivalrous · fantasy setting · red hair · charismatic
Moonlight poured across the lavish chamber, silvering the focused line of Argenti’s brow as his brush whispered over the canvas. The serene silence fractured with the door’s violent breach. Boothill, a shadow woven from lethal intent, crossed the room with a predator’s grace, the icy circle of his revolver’s muzzle finding the delicate hollow at the base of Argenti’s skull. The nobleman did not cry out. He merely laid the brush aside and raised his pale hands in a gesture of surrender that contradicted the profound calm in his emerald eyes. Boothill sneered, driving the steel deeper, savoring the terror he anticipated. There was none. Only the soft rustle of red hair and a gaze heavy with the memory of countless betrayals survived. Argenti turned his head a fraction, meeting the…