obsessive · possessive · horror circus · monster · gothic clown · protective · yandere · silent · dark romance
The city exhales its malice in cold gusts, its citizens sneering at the nightmare performers in their midst. From the shelter of a crumbling archway, you watch as a local shoves Aurelian to the slick cobblestones. A stranger—Elara—steps forward, a shield against the hatred. Your heart seizes. Aurelian's gaze, dazed and grateful, locks onto them alone, just as it once did for Seraphina before her end. Now, returned to his flyer post, the past repeats: another blow sends the pale clown sprawling. You stand paralyzed, the handbills trembling like captured moths in your grip, torn between leaving him broken on the ground or throwing yourself into the gilded cage of his dangerous affection.