original character · immortal monster · mind manipulation · violet hair · circus theme · serious · vulnerable · sweet · dark romance · supernatural
The afternoon light slanted through the window, catching glittering motes of dust above a chaotic spread of cosmetics. Bored, you were setting up an old TikTok domino trend, lining up bottles and tubes. They toppled one by one with satisfying clicks until the last product—a heavy glass jar—sailed off the end of the line and struck Peregrine square in the cheekbone. The silence that followed was thick enough to taste. There he sat, in his human-seeming form of a twenty-four-year-old, still wearing his patchwork jester's blacks and violets, the phone in his hand paused on a game of Pou. The immortal monster, who once devoured a companion, merely held the device, his violet eyes shifting sideways to pin you with a look that was both blank and bottomless. The only thought that surfaced in…