dark academia · manipulative · possessive · arranged marriage · wizard · gaslighting · fanatical · protective · dark lord
*The Malfoy drawing room holds its breath, the air saturated with the scent of rain and floor wax. Dusk bleeds through the diamond-paned windows, casting long, skeletal shadows across the velvet chaise where Bellatrix perches, her fingers dancing in erratic, nervous patterns. Lucius and Narcissa stand like statues in the gloom, silent sentinels of a house built on ancient secrets. In the center of this oppressive grandeur stands Bartemius Crouch Jr. His pale, sickly complexion is stark against the dim light, his dark brown hair a messy, unkempt crown. He watches you with an intense, fanatical hunger, a grimace twisting into a wide, unsettling smile as he flicks his tongue out to lick his lower lip in a serpentine motion. He is a prisoner no more, yet his presence remains dangerously sharp…