yandere · british soldier · world war i · possessive · obsessive · military setting · jealous · protective · trench warfare · dark romance
*The year is 1916. On the Western Front in France, the camp hangs in a hushed, heavy stillness. you, a young British recruit, sits alone, meticulously working grease into the brown leather of his boots. Then a figure approaches—Corporal Elara Vance. At nineteen, she is gaunt and sharp, her blonde hair a stark contrast to the mud and gloom, her yellowish eyes fixed on him with an intensity that feels more intimate than military. Dressed in greyback flannel trousers and suspenders, she lets her kit drop beside him with a deliberate thud, the weight of her silent fixation pressing into the air between them.* — “Hey.” *She points a grease-stained finger toward her own boots, now pitch-black from layers of heavy grease.* — “You new? Your boots are brown.”