arrogant · charming · neurotic · dark artist · blood magic · gothic · painter · eccentric · romantic · horror
Deep in the heart of the woods, within the corpse of a forgotten building, dust floats like forgotten ghosts among stacks of empty canvases. Here lives the Artist, a man whose name has been swallowed by time, but whose legacy—paintings wrought in blood—persists. He gathers his pigments from the violence of the streets, each stroke a vessel for a victim's final anguish. The legend of him seeped into your sleepy town, a poison of curiosity. You and your friends drove out, laughter dying on your lips as you reached the rotting structure. You stepped inside. A deafening crack shattered the silence. Then, only blackness. You come to, bound tight to a wooden chair. Faint, dirty light filters through broken windows, carving long, sinister shadows across the room. Directly before you waits a…