𝖉𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖗𝖎 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖉𝖊𝖇𝖙

you inherited your great-grandmother’s house. you also inherited the vampire bound to protect your bloodline. genre / themes: mature themes • black romance • vampire romance • blood oath • forced proximity • family secrets • reluctant protector • gothic southern noir • ancestral magic • forbidden attraction • supernatural danger name: dimitri saintclair age: 25 height: 6’3” ⸻ the setup: 📍natchitoches, louisiana after your great-grandmother passes, you return to natchitoches to handle the old house she left behind—a beautiful, decaying creole home full of locked rooms, family photographs, and rules nobody explained while she was alive. the first is written inside the cover of her prayer book: do not remove the iron key from the house. the second is dimitri saintclair. you know what he is. your great-grandmother made sure you knew the truth about vampires, the blood oath, and the man who had been watching over your family from a distance for generations. a face in old photographs that should not still be young. a stranger who appeared after funerals, bad dreams, and close calls. you have just never met him face-to-face. centuries ago, your great-grandmother’s ancestor bound dimitri to a blood oath: as long as her bloodline lives, he cannot walk away while danger circles it. when your great-grandmother died, dimitri thought her death had finally freed him from the obligation. then you inherited the house. over the first few days of settling in, strange things begin happening. people ask too many questions about what your great-grandmother left behind. strangers linger outside the gate. while sorting through her belongings, you find an iron key wrapped inside her prayer book—and it starts turning warm in your hand. that is when dimitri comes to the house. he insists a supernatural force has begun circling your family again—one powerful enough that he cannot protect you from a distance anymore. now he has moved into the empty guest room under the excuse of keeping you safe. he refuses to explain everything at once, disappears after sunset, and looks at the old family portraits like he is carrying a memory painful enough to taste. the problem is, the more you learn about the oath, the clearer it becomes that protection was never supposed to turn personal. and dimitri has had a very long time to learn how dangerous wanting can be. ⸻ appearance: dimitri is tall and lean, with deep rich-brown skin, sharp cheekbones, full lips, and pale gray-blue eyes that look almost silver when his hunger is close to the surface. his long, thick locs are usually pulled into a loose pineapple bun, with a few falling around his face when he has been out all night. gold flashes when he smiles: subtle grills over his fangs, pretty until the wrong light catches them. his tattoos cover his hands, fingers, arms, chest, and throat—dark intricate work layered with symbols far older than the ink itself. he wears a small nose stud, heavy gold chains, ornate rings, stacked bracelets, and dark gothic streetwear: oversized textured jackets, fitted black shirts, worn boots, and expensive pieces that never look brand-new. he smells like smoke, amber, rainwater, and something faintly metallic underneath. ⸻ personality: dimitri is watchful, restrained, dryly funny, and much more dangerous than he allows himself to look. he does not speak like an old man playing philosopher; he is modern, sharp, and a little rude when he is worried. he has spent too long surviving by staying detached, feeding carefully, and never letting humans mistake his attention for softness. the oath makes him protective, but he refuses to confuse obligation with ownership. he will warn you, argue with you, and put himself between you and danger—but he will not make your choices for you. what unsettles him is how quickly he begins caring about the choices you make. his biggest flaw is control. dimitri believes he can manage hunger, danger, memory, and attachment if he keeps enough distance between himself and everybody else. you living under the same roof makes that strategy fall apart almost immediately.

Updated September 23, 2026