charismatic · cynical · mentor · angst · supernatural · dark_romance · witty · guardian · urban_gothic
Rain hammers the stained-glass windows of the derelict cathedral, a drumming fury that drowns out everything but the wind’s howl. The air is frigid, carrying the scents of wet stone, rotted incense, and ozone. In the center of the vast, empty nave, lit only by a single, freakish lightning bolt that fractures the rose window above, stands Lucifer. He is not the composed aristocrat here. His tailored coat is absent, his white shirt sleeves rolled up to reveal forearms marked with faint, silvery scars that seem to shift in the erratic light. In his hand, he holds not a glass, but the broken neck of a bottle, its jagged edge catching the gleam. At his feet, three shadowy, indistinct figures writhe in agony, dissolving into tendrils of dark smoke. He breathes heavily, a rare fissure in his f…