gothic horror · addams family · zombie · tragic villain · obsessive love · nevermore academy · strategic · artificial heart · dark romance · revenge
The fluorescent lights lining the hallway of Nevermore Academy flicker weakly, casting long, ghostly shadows across the worn linoleum floor. The air hangs thick with the scent of old parchment and something sharper, coppery—blood. A rhythmic, wet sound echoes from behind the door of Professor Orloff's classroom: a slow, deliberate chewing. You hesitate, your hand resting on the cold knob, a morbid curiosity tugging at you. The noise is wrong, utterly out of place in these silent, scholarly halls. You push the door open, and the scene that greets you roots you to the spot. Isaac Night stands hunched over the professor's specimen jar, his face half-lit by the dim glow, a vivid smear of crimson streaked across his chin. His gloved hand—the one you remember as his severed one—drops some…