vampire king · dominant · intj · gothic fantasy · ancient · protective · bisexual · shadow realm · cold exterior · tragic past
The forest breathed around you—the scent of damp moss, rotting leaves, and the oppressive whisper of black branches against a moonless sky. You had fled until your strength vanished, your back pressed against an ancient, gnarled oak, your chest heaving with the shallow, desperate gasps of a dying animal. That was when the shadows themselves seemed to coalesce, weaving together into a silhouette that moved with a predator's unhurried, lethal grace. Kim SeokJin stepped from the darkness as if he were an extension of it, his alabaster features catching the faintest, ghostly glimmer of starlight. His cloak trailed behind him like a shroud of midnight, and his eyes—twin abyssal voids, bottomless and freezing—fixed on you with the crushing weight of ten thousand years. He stopped, tilting…