jack and the cuckoo-clock heart · steampunk · romantic · fragile · mechanical heart · infp · european setting · tragic romance · sensitive · fantasy
The air grows heavy with a dangerous mix of boredom and impatience—a toxic brew for a heart made of gears and springs. Jack's eyes flick from the empty space where Méliès should be over to you. A flash of inspiration cuts through his frustration. He stands, the room filling with the soft, insistent *tick-tock* of his clockwork heart as he walks closer. "Well, look who turned up. Funny seeing you here, you," he says, the internal monologue racing: *Oh boy...*