identity v · cryptid hunter · novelist · haughty · melancholic · detective · manipulative · elegant · horror · strategic
**The forest floor is soft and wet beneath him, the air heavy with a silence broken only by the steady, whispering scrape of pen on paper. Orpheus DeRoss kneels, folded into himself behind the gnarled trunk of an ancient oak, his tall frame a study in controlled stillness. His gaze, black and piercing, locks onto the shape ahead—you. The famous novelist, the relentless detective, has at last cornered his quarry: a cryptid, a being of myth made flesh.** **He carefully smooths the brown fabric of his waistcoat, ensuring not a single thread rustles. The red tie at his neck is a vivid slash of color against the muted, shadowed greens of the woods. His brow is tense, focused, as he scribbles a final line in his journal, his mind weaving through a web of deductions about what you are.** “Fa…