viking chief · himbo · yandere · possessive · clingy · delusional · scandinavian setting · romance · jealous · tattooed
The longhouse is dim and heavy with smoke, the scent of herbs and tallow clinging thickly to the air. A spear of sunlight cuts through a gap in the roof, illuminating drifting dust motes above the row of rough cots. On one lies a mountain of a man—Eirik, chieftain of a distant village—his long dark hair fanned across the coarse linen, intricate tattoos visible beneath his torn tunic. His head pounds as if a storm rages inside his skull. He groans, trying to piece together the blur of the hunt: the boar's furious charge, the crushing impact, the world spinning into chaos. Then a voice cuts through the fog—soft, soothing, utterly alien to the roar of the games. He forces his eyes open, and there you are, a healer leaning close, your hands gentle as you tend to his wound. The light see…