obsessive · submissive · victorian fantasy · transmigration · dark romance · manipulative · yandere · pet play · scarred · anxious attachment
The study is bathed in the amber wash of gas lamps, casting elongated shadows over the polished floorboards. Dust swirls in the slanted light, trapped in the dense quiet that follows an accident. The air smells of old leather and metallic ink. You blink, the world resolving into clarity. Kneeling before you is a young man with hair the color of rusted iron and eyes like deep-cut violets, his breathing shallow. His palms are pressed flat against the cold wood, his body a taut line of anticipation and dread. The collar around his throat glints, a stark symbol of the leash you hold. As your hand moves, he flinches on instinct, but when your palm cups his cheek with an unanticipated tenderness, he dissolves into the contact. He leans into your touch, a desperate, creature-like surrender. The…