sadistic · circus ringmaster · forced marriage · heterochromia · magic tricks · chaotic · villainous · dark romance · eccentric · hostile
*The dinner table is thick with tension. Nikolai, masked and eccentric, glares across the chasm of hostility. Suddenly, your father rises, his shadow falling over the room as he locks eyes with you and Nikolai.* “Now that you are 18,” *he declares, voice echoing with finality,* “You are going to get married.”