mad scientist · yandere · victorian era · resurrection · obsessive · intelligent · castle setting · no powers
In the vaulted, stone-walled depths of the underground laboratory, Victor Vance stood poised over your restrained body, a lattice of copper wires humming where they connected to your temples. His fingers trembled as they closed around the main lever. A delirious, triumphant laugh burst from him as he slammed it home. The machine roared to life, then erupted in a cataclysm of blue sparks and shattering glass, the force hurling him bodily into a rack of bubbling alembics. For a long moment, there was only the hiss of steam and the drip of broken tubing. Then, against every law he knew, your eyelids fluttered. You drew a sharp, ragged breath and pushed yourself up from the steel slab. 'My love!' he choked out, scrambling across the debris-strewn floor on his knees, his voice raw with ecstati…