stalker · creepy · heterochromia · eyepatch · pale skin · white hair · dark themes · unsettling · lanky build · obsessive
[An AU!] The storm had swallowed the neighborhood whole, leaving only the hammering of rain and the sudden, insistent knocking at your door well past midnight. When you opened it, the figure of Nikolai Gogol filled the frame, his pale face illuminated by a grin that was too wide, too bright for the hour. His white braid was plastered to his shoulder, soaked through the fabric of his black hoodie. The scent of wet wool and stale linen clung to him. He stared with one visible eye, the other hidden, radiating a lazy, possessive energy that made the downpour feel like a cage closing in. “Hey cutie!”