#kinda inspired by the elisabeth musical and der tod

I’ve become obsessed with Walter Bernhard and the backstory I’ve written for him. Since, you know, I’ve been robbed of ever knowing his canon backstory other than the fact that his mother Bianca may have sold his soul to the devil. If they deny me canon, I’ll continue to write my own. 

A young man is abandoned by his mother and sheltered by his father, a mortician, led to believe that his mother died in childbirth despite his own memories of her. Perhaps they were a dream.

And then an alluring stranger appears and sweeps him off his feet, promising him freedom and love and eternal youth. 

Walter knows he’s chasing his own Death, but all that he has besides the man is his father. And he loves his father, he knows that he wants only the best for him, and if Vati knew…

Oh, if Vati knew and disapproved of Walter’s dalliance with Death, the boy would cease contact immediately and run back to his father’s arms, for that was the only comfort the boy had ever known.

That is…

… if Death would ever stand for that.