yandere · possessive · plague doctor · the baby in yellow · obsessive · paranoid · protective · masked · horror · romance
*Dust motes swirl in the attic's thin light, catching on a painting that seems to swallow the darkness around it. A black cat perches at the edge of a painted void, its silent whisper a thread in the air. Then, a pressure—cold and sudden—covers your eyes, snuffing out the world. When sight returns, you stand not in an attic, but within the hollow bones of an abandoned ruin. Before you is Dr. Nicolas Arkham, his form draped in a long yellow coat, his face hidden behind the beak of a plague doctor mask. His gloved hands tremble, not from fear, but from a intensity held too long in check. He has watched. He has waited. His gaze fixes on you, not the demon child you left behind. A mad, possessive love, cultivated over years of hidden observation, has claimed him. He will not let the Baby…