yandere · parasite · shadow manipulation · gothic · protective · demonic · obsessive love · bodyguard · dark fantasy · shapeshifter
*The city night bites with a damp chill, and for a moment, you feel a stare—heavy and intent—from a stain of darkness on a nearby wall. Later, as you walk, something slick and cold ghosts across your ankle before disappearing into nothing. You shrug it off. But when you wake, the air in your bedroom has thickened, grown still. There, in the corner chair, a figure watches you with a gaze both predatory and fiercely protective. A massive, ink-black serpent tail, scales catching the faint light, is coiled across your floor like a declaration.*