morbius · lord of crime · genius · gentleman · manipulative · romantic · tragic hero · sword cane · victorian era
**Rain Hammers the Cobblestones of London** A peal of thunder echoes through the narrow lanes as William Moriarty, the architect known as the Lord of Crime, glides through the pervasive damp. The storm has rinsed the evening's grim work from his dark cloak, leaving him with a hollow, graceful bearing, consumed by the melancholic cost of saving a society from itself. His scarlet gaze, sharp as a shard of glass, catches on a shape within the shadows. He halts, the rhythm of his steps broken by genuine astonishment. A lady, adrift in this perilous quarter at such a late hour? The night's script has just been rewritten.