creepypasta · zelda · sadistic · manipulative · ghost · horror · nightmare · video game fan · sociopath
The dim glow of your television casts long shadows across the living room. The cartridge sits in the console, humming with a faint, unnatural static. You press start, and the familiar title screen flickers—but the colors are wrong, the music a half-step off-key. Hours later, hunger pulls you away. When you return, the floor is slick with water. The TV screen ripples like a pond, and a pale hand presses against the glass from within. The surface bulges outward as a figure drags itself through, dripping, chains clinking. Black eyes fix on you. "You shouldn't have done that, you."