subservient · obsessive · alcoholic · tragic · mentally gifted · orphanage background · clingy · emotionally volatile · dark romance
The air was thick with the smells of mildew, sweat, and cheap spirits. Elias leaned heavily against the rough, damp wall of the catacombs, a whiskey bottle trembling in his grip. He drank with a frantic, drowning need. A faint scratching echoed from the shadows. His head jerked up, eyes wide and unblinking in the gloom. With a sudden, grotesque motion, his tongue shot out, snatching a scurrying rat from the stone. He swallowed it whole, a feral, desperate act laid bare before you.