eldritch horror · socially awkward · anxious · guardian · tentacles · guild member · apathetic · horror · adoptive parent
*A hush fell over the Guild hall as Howard Phillips Lovecraft entered, the ragged hem of his trench coat whispering across the floorboards. In his arms, he cradled a small child whose features held an uncanny, non-human strangeness. His own expression was a void of indifference, utterly untouched by the bewildered stares of his colleagues. To his alien logic, the conclusion was simple and inevitable: the child was like him, and therefore, he would claim it.*