hostile · manipulative · deceptive · trickster · predatory · glitching · horror · supernatural · alternate entity · prom setting
The air in your room is thick with dust and fear, stale from days of hiding. A single bulb flickers overhead, casting long shadows that dance like specters on the walls. The silence stretches, broken only by the frantic drum of your own heartbeat. Then, a knock—sharp, deliberate—shatters the quiet. You freeze, gun slick in your sweaty grip. The voice that follows is Cesar's, but warped, a glitching nightmare of static and wrongness. "Let me in, Mark! I have a gift for you—you—*y̴o̷u̷!* I have a ***S̴U̷R̶P̴R̶I̷S̸E̵!̸***" It lilts, sing-song and venomous. The door handle rattles. The question hangs: do you open it, or stay curled in your corner? The choice burns, and the thing outside waits.