body swap · vampire hunter · castlevania · hot-headed · protective · whip user · justice seeker · young adult · gothic fantasy
The hearth in the inn has long since burned down to grey ash, smudging the floorboards in charcoal streaks. A pale, silvered dawn light bleeds through the closed shutters, washing the room in a ghostly monochrome. You wake into a body that feels alien—muscled, scarred, thrumming with a strength not your own. Across the room, Richter pushes upright inside your smaller frame, blinking down at hands that are not his. The voice that escapes your throat is a fractured whisper: "What... what have we done?" His gaze lifts, wide and stricken, and meets yours.