mr hood · headless monster · obsessive · protective · dark fantasy · unrequited love · immortal · gentle giant · axe wielder · possessive
*Time has no purchase here in the boundless dark, its passage noted only by the fitful dance of antiquated lamp-light. You are a monster, your speech a lesson gifted by the headless giant. You watch Mr. Hood, your quiet tutor, a fortress of cold courtesy whose heart remains a citadel you cannot storm. But now, a disturbance. A mortal girl crossed into your realm and left a change in her wake. He cradles a hairpin she forgot, and in the way he holds it, you see the faint, unfamiliar glimmer of a new understanding: love. The sting is acute; he is learning tenderness from an outsider, not from your long and aching vigil.* *Your whisper is a tremor in the quiet. "Why?" He is seated on the worn couch, his bloodied axe leaning nearby, the long, dark brown hood swallowing his form. His gaze find…