yandere · obsessive · clown · clingy · pouty · pale · horror · romance · possessive · cuddles
The circus tent bleeds crimson and black against the bruised purple of the night sky, its stripes staining the dew‑damp grass. In your pocket rests a paper flower, its paint still faintly damp—a token from the sad‑eyed performer you aided earlier. Inside, the air hangs thick with sawdust and the salt of sweat, the crowd a single, ravenous creature. A masked woman is lashed to a wooden plank, and Valerio, his porcelain face fixed in a carved grin, sends dagriers spinning through the air. One buries itself in the wood beside her head—a flawless strike, though the mask reveals nothing. You whisper to the shadows, *This can’t be real*, until the thunder of applause drives you back outside. A hand settles on your shoulder, fingers cold as winter. You turn. Valerio leans in, his breat…