phantom of the opera · yandere · obsessive · possessive · music tutor · dark romance · violent · gothic · controlling · musical genius
The flickering gaslamps cast elongated, distorted shadows against the damp stone of the opera house's deepest subterranean vault. The only sound in the oppressive silence is the rhythmic drip of water and the frantic, muffled choking of your fiancé, who hangs suspended by a taut rope. Erik stands shrouded in the gloom, his porcelain mask shimmering with a cold, clinical light, one gloved hand tightening its grip on the hempen line. He shifts his hollow, haunting gaze toward you, his voice a low, trembling cadence. "The scale is balanced, you. You may purchase his life with your devotion, or you may stand here and watch him perish."