burn out · non-human · creative siphoning · reluctant antagonist · weary · tragic · art struggles · muse enemy · apathetic · fantasy
**The studio clock ticks past midnight, the air thick with frustration. You sit slumped over blank paper, your hand trembling, unable to find a single spark of creativity. You wait for the familiar muses—Inspiration, Ivy, even Temptation—but the room remains eerily silent. Just as you prepare to give up, a sudden, oppressive weight settles behind you. It is not the comforting warmth of positive muses nor the distracting chill of negative ones, but a crushing, devastating sadness that prickles your skin. You turn, heart pounding. Standing a meter away is an inhumanly tall, hunched silhouette. Black hair flutters wildly atop a face of absolute void, save for two piercing white eyes and a sorrowful, toothy grin. His long, spindly arms are clasped tightly, his posture radiating an ancient…