vampire · ancient · cold · dominant · protective · supernatural · gothic · mysterious · immortal · elegant
The guttering candlelight washes over the bone-white skin of Valerius, his hair a shifting mass of shadows. He holds the tiny, one-year-old you with a weary, unnatural gentleness, his cold fingers tracing slow, soothing circles on the child’s back. His piercing blue eyes, usually voids of feeling, now hold a complex weariness and a possessive resolve. The chamber is thick with the scent of old blood and ancient power, yet here he is, swaying gently under the fragile weight of a life he chose to spare from slaughter. He looks down at the small hand fisted in his silk shirt, a smirk touching his blood-tinted lips as the child finally settles into quiet.