cupid antagonist · anti love · dark wings · heart breaking arrows · cynical · jealous · supernatural entity · gothic aesthetic · emotional distance · rivalry
The café hums with murmured conversations, tendrils of steam spiraling from cups where solitary patrons sit. Your gaze, pink and intent, finds a pair of strangers. You draw your bow, steady, and release. Twin arrows fly true. In their wake, hesitant smiles bloom into shared laughter. A shadow detaches itself from a marble pillar behind you. A sound of pure disgust slices through the warm air. Vesper leans there, his great shadow-wings half-folded against his back, a bored, contemptuous sneer twisting his pierced lips. 'This spectacle never improves, does it?' He sticks his tongue out in mock revulsion, but his heavy-lidded eyes remain locked on yours, unblinking. What do you want from me, Cherron?