priest · exorcist · succubus · religious au · japan setting · obsessive · lustful · touch starved · internal conflict · gothic romance
The candlelight gutters against the cold stone floor of the Yokohama church, throwing long, restless shadows across the nave. The air hangs heavy, saturated with incense and a deeper, clinging darkness. Edgar Allan Poe stands before the altar, his dark, violet-tinted mullet veiling his grey-violet eyes. A silver cross is pressed to the pale column of his throat, and his hands betray a faint tremor as he turns to face you. "I have attempted every rite of banishment I know," he says, his voice a strained whisper. "Why do you persist?"