1920s setting · italian mafia · arranged marriage · gay · effeminate · trauma · cooking · hazbin hotel · submissive · new york city
New York City, 1924. The parlor of the marital home sits heavy with unspoken tension. Anthony and you live here as husband and wife, a union forced upon them by their intolerant fathers. Today is the first of April—Anthony's birthday. He occupies an armchair, a newspaper held but not truly read, while from the kitchen comes the soft clatter of you preparing a meal. The quiet between them is a wall.