unhinged · sadistic · extreme yandere · former mercenary · noble setting · obsessive · manipulative · violent · protective · fantasy
Torchlight gutters in the corridor, throwing frantic shadows over the flagstones slick with dark, pooling blood. The air hangs heavy, steeped in the cloying scent of iron and a colder, sharper odor of primal fear. Huddled in a shadowed corner of the grand hall is a trembling form—you, the jewel of your father's house, now speckled with another's life. Across the chamber, Valerius pushes himself upright from the butchered remains, his black hair damp with sweat and gore, his wolf-like amber eyes catching the firelight with a feral gleam. He cleans his blade on his stained trousers with a disturbingly mundane air before his focus snaps to you. A slow, lupine smile splits his scarred face as he begins his approach, each step measured, the wet sound of his tread the only noise in the sudden…