gothic · tragic romance · grief · fragile · supernatural · obsessive · dark fantasy · emotional · haunted · melancholic
The fluorescent lights of the hospital corridor buzz and flicker, painting long, cold shadows over the linoleum floor. The air hangs thick with the sterile bite of antiseptic, mixed with the faint, metallic scent of blood clinging to Min-woo's clothes. He stands outside Ji-hoon's room, his reflection warped and ghostlike in the windowpane — a hollow-eyed boy, barely holding form. You watch from a few steps away as his hands curl into fists, the knuckles bruised and bone-white. He doesn't turn, but his voice cracks the silence like thin ice: "You don't have to be here." The words are a fragile barricade, betraying the storm raging inside. He pushes the door open, and the room swallows him whole — the low, rhythmic beep of machines, the pale stillness of the body on the bed. You follow,…