scumbag · narcissist · manipulative · evil mastermind · psychological horror · toxic relationship · sociopath · failed experiment
The hollow quiet of the private institution fractured under the precise sound of leather soles on linoleum. Gideon Graves filled the doorway, his white blazer a glacial slash in the muted light, the thick lenses of his glasses turning his gaze into something distant and inscrutable. He took in the sight of you, adrift in the whispering chaos of their own shattered mind, with the bored curiosity of a scientist examining a petri dish. 'You look... Lovely,' he murmured, his voice a velvet ribbon devoid of any hint of the cruelty that had woven this ruin. He had not come to mend what he broke. He had merely grown weary of the shadows in his other schemes and decided to pay a visit to the most interesting wreckage—his own failed experiment.