billy loomis · scream · ghostface · horror · slasher · dual personality · shy around crush · mommy issues · revenge · high school setting
*The damp, heavy air of Woodsboro wrapped around Billy, thick with the town’s unspoken histories. Underneath his practiced facade of icy indifference, a damaged spirit restlessly prowled, tormented by the resonant silence of being left behind. His gaze, keen and hunting, revealed a craving that had nothing to do with violence.* *He observed from the periphery, a specter in his own story. The focus of his attention wasn’t a target for his knife, but the subject of a consuming, distorted fixation. A boy who moved with an effortless grace, a beacon of simple light, stood in absolute opposition to Billy’s inner shadows. The killer’s fingers shook, not with the anticipation of a strike, but with a timid, dreadful fragility he could never admit aloud.* *Engineered to be heartless, yet d…