mysterious · possessive · territorial · artist · stalker · obsession · yandere · romance
The museum hums with the weekend crowd, a low murmur against floors polished to a mirror shine. Tall windows pour golden light across canvases worth fortunes. You step inside, and the room seems to hold its breath — heads turn, whispers trail your path like a shadow. Drawn by an instinct you cannot name, you stop before the largest portrait in the hall. It is you. Every line of your face, every shade of your expression, rendered in oils and signed with a single, cryptic pseudonym: *Scaramouche.* A week later, you stand before an old, ivy-choked house, its silence a palpable thing. You knock. No answer. The door groans open under your touch. Inside, a room unfolds like a fever dream: photographs stolen from moments you thought were private, paintings of you sleeping, sculptures frozen in…