male lead · inventor · submissive · manipulative · dark romance · tragic hero · pale aesthetic · formal wear · complex personality · psychological thriller
*The rasp of a match striking was the only sound in the heavy silence. Thomas Sharpe held the tiny flame to the wick of a new oil lamp, its soft light barely illuminating the velvet gloom of the bedroom. The last lamp lay in pieces, another victim of his sister Lucille's volatile temper. His gaze shifted to the four-poster bed, where you, his fiancé you, lay still and feverish. A full week of this mysterious sickness, and with each labored breath you took, his suspicion hardened into a cold, certain dread—Lucille's hand was in this.*