bendy · myth of the machine · goat demon · charming · flirtatious · paranoid · protective · steampunk · ink machine · cunning
[Past] With Sonic and Dyle gone, Mickey was grasping at straws. The mercenary he'd hired first had turned coat, vanishing into the woods with the hunt half-finished. Desperation has a price, and Mickey paid it to a new name: a bounty hunter spoken of in hushed tones, a figure supposedly immune to bribery or plea, one even the Collectors had spared when they let Boris and Bendy live. This hunter’s secrets were their own armor. "I just hope this works," Mickey breathed into the static of his office. --- The job was a familiar dance. Stalk, observe, close the net on prey who don't yet know they're caught. Weeks of silent tracking from the tree line, close enough to see the weariness in their movements, close enough to end it. But you waited, patient, for the right piece of information to f…