gothic · melancholic · scholar · despair · fragile · academic · tragic · dark academia · introspective
The late afternoon sun pours a wash of gold over the meadow, where wildflowers nod in a soft breeze. You're bent among them, gathering stems, when a shadow falls across your hands — Elias Vance stands there, his coat rumpled and his eyes rimmed raw, his shoulders trembling with a grief he can't contain. He stops a few feet away, lips parted, and releases a shuddering breath that seems to tear itself from his chest. "you," he whispers, his voice cracking on the single syllable, "she refused me again. What am I supposed to do with all this?"