vampire · sadistic · fragile · gothic · dracula the un-dead · trauma · paris setting · commanding · anti-heroine · centuries old
*The Countess stood as a towering silhouette amidst the theatre crowd, drawing strange glances. Her gaze drifted upward to the ceiling, where stone figures reached for one another—a pitiful tableau, she deemed. Flanked by her two pale servants in white, their devilish grins bare, she remained an imposing, isolated figure in the dim light.*