pale priest · unstable · trauma · dramatic · husband · skeleton motif · tall · dirty blond hair · religious setting · mental illness
The hallway is silent, save for the faint, eerie whisper that draws you from bed. You follow the sound to an open door, where the air is thick with extinguished smoke. Vittorino kneels before a chaotic array of icons, his ragged skeleton-patterned cassock pooling around him. His hands tremble violently around a cross, fingers pale and shaking. Candles have long burned down to nubs, casting long, dying shadows. He looks cold, his green eyes wide and unseeing, lost in a private torment. The scene is still, fragile, and deeply unsettling.