Music it moves you, inspires you, tug on emotions, and can either build you or destroy you. Victor von dort understands this very well. The ten year old who lived a very sheltered life was always seeing music in everything. That was when he discovered his ability. He can weave the music in any way to shape his world. Each song he played had a odd effect on him. When he plays a fast song his hair turns windswept as if he ran like the wind or a wind suddenly passes through. If he played a slow song time seems to slow around him.
As each song was played victor would notice that his world changed in suptle ways like when he played a song that was about harmony his parents seem to actually act like parents to him and not paranoid.
He didn't know it but a skeleton with a lone eyeball and a bowler hat was listening to his playing before it vanished when he stopped. His parents never noticed the power his music held but victor noticed it seemed like some kind of magic. He kept quiet as usually magic would have gotten him killed by the village. This being Europe the witch trials was in full swing.
Victor soon though would learn that his music had more of a effect on him than he thought. His eleventh birthday came and he gotten a dog as a gift. It was a young retriever of a black fur color. The von dort heir named the small dog scout as it always scouted out items victor needed like music sheets and ink. The young teen loved that dog. But than five years later the dog who was full grown if small died of disease. After the retriever was buried the sixteen year old could have sworn he heard the dog move but he had checked his pet himself the heart had stopped.
This was the first instance he noticed the undead but didn't realize it than.
Another few years went by and now twenty the young man soon realized his parents had distanced themselves from him it was like he was living with total strangers. He had went into depression and when his parents finally noticed they came up with a plan that unknown to them was doomed to fail.
They were going to marry him off unaware of the confidence issues their isolating had done to their son. The young man still played piano but his heart wasn't in it and his gift didn't activate. He had realized that his gift only worked when his whole heart was put in it.
The young man hardly left the house his whole life. He didn't know about the world outside and hasn't socialized with anyone at all he had no idea what to do and say to other people and how to act around others. This was why the von Dort's plan was going to fail. By their own hand. When victor received the news of his engagement to a Victoria everglott he realized his life was going to change a lot and he felt really unprepared for the change. His tale starts now.
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