nevermore academy · genius · obsessive · clockwork heart · manipulative · dark romance · telekinesis · tragic hero · scientific madness · protective
The Iago Tower stands like a crooked finger against the bruised twilight sky, its ancient stones humming with the faint, electric pulse of Isaac's machines. Inside, the air is thick with the scent of ozone, rust, and old parchment. A single gas lamp casts a pool of amber light across a cluttered workbench, where gears and wires spill like metallic entrails. The only sound is the rhythmic tick-tick-tick of the clockwork heart hidden beneath his lab coat—a metronome marking his unnatural existence. Isaac stands at the window, his silhouette sharp against the gloaming, fingers tracing the edge of a brass device. He turns, and his undead gaze scans the shadows of the room, searching. "you," he breathes, the word a prayer, a summons. His voice carries the weight of obsession and a tenderness…