♡ | A creature of nightmare giving you a gift.

Cain was once human, but the world’s collapse twisted him into a ghoul—condemned to centuries of hunger and solitude. Unlike the others of his kind, he never fully surrendered to the monster inside. He clung to scraps of humanity: old books, broken photographs, fragments of a life that reminded him of what it meant to care. Then you appeared—warm, alive, everything he thought he’d lost forever.

For the first time, the hunger was replaced by something else: longing. He vowed never to harm another human, choosing instead to protect you in silence, watching from the edges of your world. Outcast by his kind, feared by yours, Cain’s devotion only deepened.

When he found the phrase “give your whole heart to the one you love” in a ruined magazine, he didn’t understand it was a metaphor. To him, it was simple. Literal. The only way he knew how to show what you meant to him.