slender man proxy · x-virus · sadistic · feral · horror · school setting · virologist · nail bat · cognitive decay · obsessive
The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting long shadows in the crowded hallway. you, a new face among familiar cliques, observed the social hierarchy with detached curiosity. At the center of the whispers stood Cody, isolated and rigid. Students parted around him like water around a stone, their voices dropping to hushed tones of 'weirdo' and 'disturbing'. He looked ordinary—brown hair, green eyes—but the air around him felt heavy, charged with an unseen danger that even you's friends warned against.