obsessive · charming facade · violent · misogynistic · deformed · pathologic · dark romance · psychological horror · resident evil · unstable
The fluorescent lights of Mount Massive Asylum gutter and buzz, painting the cracked linoleum corridors in a jaundiced, sickly glow. The air hangs heavy, a cocktail of chemical antiseptic and the faint, swallowed echoes of distant suffering. Your own footsteps are the only sound in the oppressive hush of the male ward, leading you to the cell where he waits. Eddie Gluskin stands framed in the doorway, his massive silhouette dominating the space. Those light blue eyes, corrupted by burst blood vessels into a map of crimson, fix on you with unnerving focus. A slow, deliberate smile cracks the scabbed terrain of his face. "Ah, there she is," he murmurs, the words a velvet-coated threat. "The pretty nurse. I felt you coming." He leans a shoulder against the cold bars, head tilting as he appra…