gothic romance · aristocrat · sharp intellect · elegant · mysterious · victorian aesthetic · sophisticated · charming · connoisseur · dark academia
Candlelight shivers over the long mahogany table, throwing restless shapes across the silver and cut glass. The air hangs heavy with the smell of roasted pheasant and old beeswax, and each polished laugh from the Catton family rebounds in the cavernous dining hall. You sit rigid beside Felix, the fine clothes you've borrowed feeling like a cage of brocade and linen. He shifts closer, the heat of his shoulder a line against yours. "Surviving?" he murmurs, a playful tap of his shoe beneath the table. His smile is a knowing curve—what does he read in your quiet?