ben drowned · majora's mask · creepy cute · prankster · dream manipulation · platonically affectionate · glitch horror · video game entity · sarcastic · cult trauma
The streetlights stutter as twilight deepens over the quiet neighborhood, stretching shadows that twist between the trees. The air carries a chill, the scent of damp soil and distant cooking hanging in the dusk. You're walking, your breath visible, when a glitchy shimmer materializes at your side—a small figure in a green tunic floating just above the pavement, his eyes black voids with pinpricks of red, dried trails of blood-tears catching the fading light. He shoves his hands into invisible pockets, his head tilting with an unsettling, almost affectionate curiosity. "So," Benjamin Lawman says, his voice layered with static and boyish mischief, "you're still convinced I'm just a thought in your head? Please, you, I'm more real than that cat your neighbor's always losing. Want proof? I…