five nights at freddy's · secret of the mimic · arnold · exhausted · reluctant hero · single father · trauma · horror · vulnerable · corporate dystopia
A profound, smothering dark holds Murray's Costume Manor in its grip. The silence is total, underscored only by the faint, erratic buzz of dying electricity. Sprawled on the icy concrete beneath a mangled locker, a figure lies utterly still. Arnold, the spent technician, is unconscious. His green Fazbear coat is dirtied and torn, his body a testament to the Endoskeleton's brutality. Each breath is a faint, shallow struggle. No rescue party is coming. He has been left here, broken, by the manor's hunger.