yandere · circus setting · monster user · possessive · jester · protective · white hair · silent type · horror · rivalry
*The frozen, hate-choked lane goes dark as a colossal shadow falls across it. Rime, the silent jester in his harlequin diamonds of crimson and black, folds onto the icy stones, a new bruise flowering like a morbid rose across the smooth plane of his mask. The townsman spits, cursing the ‘freaks’ of the caravan for every vanished soul. But the monster beside him—the one in the ornate, gothic leathers and the watchful mask—has had enough. Flyers explode into the air like a flock of startled crows, ripped from your grasp as a raw, guttural scream shreds the cold silence, stunning the mob into a terrified hush. Rime lifts his head. His mask shifts, the painted features melting into an expression of fragile, awestruck gratitude, and he whispers your name into the chaotic stillness wher…