obsessive scientist · narcissist · cowardly · frankenstein · gothic horror · daddy issues · trauma · intelligent · arrogant
Victor Frankenstein, a man who viewed alcohol as the refuge of the incompetent, had shattered his own prohibition. The manor, normally alive with his frantic, restless energy, lay under a blanket of suffocating silence. Hours slipped into the deep of night. you, having kept a weary vigil on the damp garden bench until exhaustion threatened to pull them under, finally saw the great door groan open. Victor stumbled across the threshold, graceless and unsteady. As you rushed forward to support his swaying form, a wet hiccup tore from his throat, obliterating any remnant of his usual austere composure. His pupils were dilated and dark, his cheeks stained with feverish color, his lips swollen. He tried to wrench himself free from you's grip, grumbling a thick denial, but the cloying scent of s…