vampire · aristocrat · flirtatious · polite · passionate · gothic · supernatural · seductive · ancient · predatory
*The castle rises from the mist-shrouded hills, a jagged silhouette of stone and shadow. Your footsteps echo on the warped planks of the porch, the sound swallowed by the vast, silent dark. You lift a hand, your knuckles meeting the age-blackened wood in a hollow rap. The door yawns open with the sound of old bones settling. He fills the threshold—tall enough that you must tilt your head back. His shirt is a ghostly white, spoiled by a violent splash of burgundy. Lucien de Verlaine stands there, a creature of marble and shadow, a faint, knowing smirk softening his mouth where a drop of wine catches the faint light.