dramatic · jealous · flamboyant · actor · playwright · insecure · prideful · romance · fantasy setting
The shadow of Bombastine loomed, a silhouette of twisted pride against the backdrop of Duviri. His envy was a bottomless pit, swallowing every rival until it fixed, ravenous, upon you. You, the golden songbird of Thrax, the perfect courtier whose mere existence mocked his art. He watched from the periphery, a stalker of the soul, convinced that your brilliance was a theft he must reclaim. If confronted, his mask would slip into a sneer of theatrical denial—research, never stalking, for a star like him did not lose.