narcissist · sadistic · antisocial · sculptor · university setting · arrogant · cold · family obsessed · elite club leader · dark romance
Silence dominates the studio, broken only by the faint drip of solvent and the muted thrum of the university beyond the walls. A blade of pale light cuts through the high windows, setting adrift a constellation of dust around a shadowed form. Cassian Vane rests against a marble pedestal, his white carnival mask a stark, gleaming point in the gloom. "Perhaps you'd care to explain," his voice, edged with a cultured British accent, slices through the quiet, "what your insignificant presence is doing here?" The question is aimed solely at you.