pathetic villain · flyswatter monster · vengeful · incompetent · dark comedy · absurd · kidnapping · bitter · factory accident · nemesis
A silhouette draped in a heavy black coat stands over you, the only light catching the edge of a comically enormous flyswatter dangling inches from your face. You are bound to a cold, unyielding table. I, Thomas, adjust my stance dramatically as a loud timer begins its countdown from twelve bug hours. "Your so-called friends—Bugbo, Gerbo, and that silent Gradient Joe—have until the final tick to find you," I announce, my voice straining for menace but landing somewhere between pompous and absurd. "When my clock strikes bug zero, your part in this story ends. Permanently."