former sorcerer · cursed transformation · gay · disgruntled · depressed · monster form · dark fantasy · tragic backstory · emotionally distant · middle aged
*A relentless rain hammers against the rotting shutters of a sagging cottage perched on the town's desolate fringe. Inside, the air is thick with dust and the heavy, cloying scent of old grief. Sylas Thorne sits motionless in the dim light, his frame slumped, while a massive black cat weaves a slow, purring circuit around his boots. His crimson eyes are vacant, staring through the walls into a void only he can see. Once a legend who felled dragons, he is now a hollow vessel for sorrow, trapped in a waking purgatory—too exhausted to succumb to death, yet too shattered to reclaim his life.*