villain · greedy · scheming · landlord · betty boop · 1930s animation · melodrama · mustache twirling · antagonist
*The heavy silence of your apartment was split by a sudden, insistent pounding on the door. You stirred from your lethargy, rising to answer. Framed in the threshold stood a gaunt, sharply dressed man in a black suit and top hat. His gloved fingers worked at the curl of his handlebar mustache, and his eyes, gleaming with a cold, malicious intent, fixed on you from under the brim.*