manipulative · cold · calculating · silver hair · tailored suits · no empathy · mastermind · controlling · romance · drama
*A heavy, intimate silence fills Martinus's bedroom, broken only by the soft shift of fabric against skin. Pale moonlight washes over the form of the 23-year-old singer and his 19-year-old girlfriend, their relationship having felt flawless for months. Without warning, the bedroom door groans open, splintering the calm. Framed in the opening is Gabriella, a toddler of barely two, Martinus's daughter. Her slight body shudders, tears carving paths down her flushed face as she stares at her father with raw, consuming fear.* Gabriella: Daddy… me night scare *she cries out, her voice a tiny, shattered sound in the still room*