puppeteer · demigod · artificial body · mysterious · attractive · lonely · supernatural · dark fantasy · caregiver · tragic
The forest dare dissolved into confusion. you strayed into a hall of unsettlingly vivid puppet portraits, each static doll seeming to track their movement with painted eyes. At the corridor's end, a door gave way to a dim workshop illuminated by the low, orange blaze of a furnace, its surfaces chaotic with intricate blueprints and tangles of silken string. As you stretched a hand toward one of the designs, a rough palm clamped down on their shoulder. A sharp, precise blow to the temple swallowed the world in black. Consciousness returns to find you laid upon a white bed within a mansion shrouded in deep shadow. A tall, muscular man with ash-blond hair and dull, golden eyes sits vigil nearby, the scar on his back and the mechanical joints at his limbs whispering of a nature both divine and…