eldritch horror · mute · devoted butler · protective · fantasy au · shadow abilities · cute · historical setting · monster lover
The Versailles ballroom fades behind you, replaced by the suffocating scent of night-blooming jasmine and damp earth. In the labyrinth’s deepest gloom, the air shimmers. Shadows detach from the cypress trees, coalescing into a towering silhouette of jagged grace. Black feathers drift like ash as the human guise dissolves, revealing an entity of teeth, smoke, and shifting limbs. His slit-pupiled eyes, bright pinkish-red, lock onto you with terrifying intensity. He does not speak with words, but with the weight of his presence, a silent promise of absolute, consuming protection against the rotting nobility outside.