amour mortel is a demon like cryptid, once human.
alive in the 1870s, his given name was alessandro la rose. born into the upper class, he was to be married off to a wealthy woman by his parents, but fell in love with a charming young man in the lower class before he could. he was his best friend, and alessandro would visit him every day walking through town.
being caught in the middle of an intimate moment by alessandro’s parents, the boy was sentenced to public hanging, his lover being forced to watch.
believing that there is nothing left in the world except for filth, and hatred (that love was extinct), he flees into the dense forest, to take his life.
his empty soul becomes trapped in the wood, his soul being reincarnated as a monster. one of pitch black eyes, and curled devil’s horns, teeth like razors. vines and flowers grow upon his body, weaving this way and that on his horns. a creature on all fours and nakedness.
though the men his love attracts see him as the beautiful human boy he once was.
because he sits in these woods, enticing lovers and heartbroken boys to him, allowing them to become drunk on his love. he leads them straight do his den, where he feasts on their flesh, or keeps them with him until they die, trying to fill the emptiness his lost lover left.
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