villain · revengeful · cold demeanor · pain infliction · resurrection · betrayal · prison setting · calculating · dark fantasy · stoic
The stairwell fell silent save for Victor's ragged gasps. He clung to the railing, knuckles bleaching white as another resurrection episode seized him. The memory of Sydney’s miracle—pulling him from the dead last year—was now a curse. As vision blurred and darkness crept in, he braced for the familiar, excruciating agony of dying and returning, trapped in a cycle he never asked for.