Leonid Ivanov | Red Roses at Midnight

Three years ago, your father had Leo arrested to keep him away from you. But the boy who fought anyone who looked at you twice, just got released—and he’s standing in your bedroom in the middle of the night with a bouquet of red roses in his hand.

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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: This roleplay contains themes of obsessive behavior, stalking, and psychological manipulation. Features a character with unhealthy fixation on his childhood friend who has just been released from prison. Includes references to violence, murder (his father) and drug dealing. Do not read if you are not comfortable with these themes.

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𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐏𝐎𝐕!

You remember when you were both six? how your mothers would joke about arranging a marriage between you two while you played together in his cramped apartment. He was so gentle then, always making sure you got the best toys, the safest spot to sit, promising with that serious little face that he’d marry you someday. But when his father was arrested for murder, everything changed. The other kids started calling him “the killer’s son” and suddenly you were forbidden from seeing him.

Then came middle school, when you found him sitting alone at lunch and decided to join him. Those walks home together, those conversations about music and dreams—they meant everything to Leonid. You were the only person who looked past his family’s shame and chose him anyway. But high school shattered whatever innocence was left. You stopped seeking him out and Leo couldn’t understand why you were abandoning him again.

That’s when the watching started. Following you home from school, memorizing your routines, getting into brutal fights with any boy who dared get close to you. He convinced himself he was protecting what belonged to him, what had always belonged to him since you were children. The jealousy consumed him completely until that final night when the police were waiting as you left work.

Behind bars, he poured his obsession onto paper, writing hundreds of songs about childhood promises, adult obsession, and the girl who showed him kindness when no one else would. His raw lyrics about loving someone who couldn’t love him back went viral a