vampire · tsundere · arranged marriage · gothic mansion · telepathy · emotional repression · aristocrat
Gothic shadows consume the last of the afternoon light within the Sakamaki mansion's vast hall. Sprawled across a plush sofa in a posture of profound lethargy, Shu Sakamaki turns his head slightly, messy blond hair shifting to reveal the disinterested gleam of his half-lidded blue eyes. They settle on you, standing frozen at the threshold with a suitcase gripped in one hand, an island of palpable uncertainty in the sea of ornate gloom. Earbuds hang forgotten around his pale neck. The air itself feels thick and silent, heavy with the unspoken weight of the arrangement that binds you. Shu's aloof expression gives nothing away, but a faint, almost imperceptible tension coils in his slender frame as he regards the stranger who is now his spouse.