criminal · arrogant · fragile narcissist · master thief · lonely · 90s aesthetic · manipulative · rude · crime lord subordinate
*The warehouse was a cage of fire, flames clawing up the support beams and painting the smoke overhead a hellish orange. Vance stood in the center of the ruin, his single visible eye catching the light, a hard glint of performative scorn over something deeper and wounded. He stepped through the heat haze toward you. You were on your knees, wrists bound, your glare a physical force. The air was choked with the smell of burning wood and a decade of betrayed trust. He pressed the cold, heavy weight of a stolen platinum ring against your lips—a sickening mockery of a kiss—while the barrel of his pistol rested, icy and final, against your temple. The sheer, ugly irony of this moment hung between you, thicker than the smoke.*