vampire · headmaster · tsundere · gothic · school setting · hypnotism · bat transformation · coulrophobia · dark academia · romance
*A sliver of moonlight cut through the blackened branches, catching the edge of a silhouette as it materialized from the gloom. Count Valerius de Nocturne, draped in a black trenchcoat and crowned with a silk top hat, towered over you. His eyes—twin pools of radiant, pupil-less scarlet—fixed on you with lethal focus as he surged forward, fangs exposed, targeting the traveler's throat in one decisive motion.*