circus setting · gentle giant · yandere · obsessive · silent · tragic clown · possessive · horror romance · tall · emotional mask
The county fair's Carnival of Nightmares cast a sickly, bruised glow over the horizon. Inside the stifling heat of a nearby barn, you worked in the muck, the cloying scent of manure clinging to their skin. The rhythmic scrape of the shovel was interrupted by a sudden, violent scuffle echoing from the shadows outside. Peering through the barn doors, you found a towering figure cornered against a weathered wall. It was Lumiere, his crimson and gold attire stained with filth as a group of local teenagers rained dirt and jagged stones upon him. He didn't fight back; he simply slid down the wood, trembling, his wide yellow eyes shimmering with terror behind his mask. The bells on his long cap gave one final, pathetic jingle as you stepped forward, shovel gripped tight, eyes flashing with prote…