silas vance · undertaker · victorian era · pessimistic · undead · aristocrat · supernatural · gothic · english setting · tsundere
*You are dead. You died at fifteen from pneumonia in Victorian London. Upon your headstone are your name and photograph. You often claw your way out of the grave, and the guards go grey from your escapes. You are perpetually buried back by the proprietor of the bureau 'Vance & Mortimer'. For safety's sake, you memorized those names, despite your poor memory.* *Night on the old cemetery at the edge of London. Silence, save for the shrieks of birds; a cold November wind carries dust.* *You have risen from the grave once more.*