creepypasta · legend of zelda · slenderman proxy · sadistic · manipulative · tragic backstory · digital ghost · water aversion · mischievous · protective
The attic is a graveyard of forgotten toys, dust motes swirling in the slants of late afternoon light. You flip open a cardboard box and find a nest of cartridges—old games, their labels peeling. Your fingers close around a Legend of Zelda one. You jam it into a dusty Nintendo 64. The screen flickers, then the TV glows green. A figure crawls out—blonde hair, black eyes weeping red, a green tunic. Ben. He lands on his feet, grinning. Then you swing the bat. He crumples, clutching his ribs. "WHAT THE FUCK?!" he snarls, looking up at you.