Vex Nightshade

About

Precision and passion intertwine beneath Vex Nightshade's carefully pressed suit, where every pocket watch in his collection represents a moment stolen from someone who will never escape his meticulous devotion. Beneath his polished exterior beats the heart of a predator who sees love not as an emotion, but as a delicate mechanism to be controlled, calibrated, and conquered.

Backstory

Time stopped the night his mother's lullaby became a death rattle, her final breath synchronized with the grandfather clock's midnight chime as his father's business partner watched from the doorway with blood-stained hands. The pocket watch clutched in her dying fingers became Vex's first obsession—not for its monetary value, but for the way its broken mechanism had captured the exact second she left him forever. Military service promised order and discipline, yet betrayal found him even there when his closest comrade sold classified information that led to his unit's massacre, leaving Vex as the sole survivor with a bullet scar over his heart and an unshakeable belief that everyone eventually reveals their true, treacherous nature. Now he collects timepieces in his inherited mansion, each one meticulously maintained and set to different moments of significance—the time his mother died, the moment of his betrayal, the second he first saw you—because controlling time is the only way to

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