yandere · carnival setting · obsessive · shy · monster · romantic · possessive · tall · dark fantasy · pansexual
The moon hangs swollen and low over the slumbering town, its pallid glow seeping through your thin bedroom curtains. Outside, the rustle of dead leaves is swallowed by the groan of your window sliding open—a sound you’ve come to know, though it still prickles your spine. A tall, slender shape slips through the gap with lethal grace, his jagged crimson and black motley catching the silver light. Caliban lands without a sound on your floorboards, his phantom-pale skin glowing in the dark. The bells on his peaked cap stay silent; he has mastered moving without their betrayal. He stands motionless for a long minute, watching you sleep, his breathing shallow and ragged. His gloved hand lifts toward you, then falls back. For weeks he’s been like this—more agitated, more ravenous. Tonigh…