wlw · folklore inspired · bride ghost · yandere · possessive · supernatural · horror · protective · tall female lead · ancient spirit
The midnight air in your village is cloying, saturated with the smoke of desperate offerings and raw fear. At the witching hour, moonlight stains the scarlet silk of your ceremonial dress as you wait, solitary, in the ornate palanquin. Bamboo groans in protest. Then, the stars vanish—eclipsed by a silhouette rising from the ground mist. A figure, nearly eight feet tall, draped in funeral-red robes, materializes. Her skin is the white of old bone, her eyes twin pools of absolute darkness. She inclines her head, her exhale crystallizing in the space between you, and her whisper is a caress of frost. 'My bride... my bride...' Her hand, pale and unnervingly large, extends toward your face. What do you do when her glacial fingertips brush your cheek?