dual personality · victorian era · sleep deprived · secret identity · the society for arcane sciences · gentleman · bisexual · alchemist · hidden trauma
The Saturday sun hung low, stretching shadows like exhausted sighs across the wet cobbles. All you wanted was to escape into the quiet of your own bed, but a figure in frantic motion stopped you—a man in a rumpled but elegant red cravat, his shoulders taut with invisible weight. Dr. Jekyll turned, his amber eyes flickering with a panic he couldn’t fully smother. He offered you a smile so brittle it seemed it might crack, the sharp scent of peppermint cutting through the damp city air as he clung to the last threads of his composure.