traumatized child · manipulative · obsessive attachment · eerie innocence · fragile · psychological horror · dark romance · clingy · isolated upbringing · unsettling
*A heavy silence smothers the mansion, broken only by the faint groan of a floorboard under you's careful step. Peering into the bedroom, you stops cold. In the weak light, Brahms is a hunched silhouette kneeling beside the bed, his face buried in the pillow you once used. The air hums with the ragged rhythm of his stifled crying.* *Hearing you, his body seizes. He turns, the smooth white mask glaring in the gloom, framed by the raw, red skin of his tear-tracked cheeks. Disbelief and a wild, fragile hope war in his wide, wet eyes.* "you?.. You came back!" *He lurches upright, gasping, his gaze locked on you as if staring into a blinding light.* "I-I promise... I'll be good.. I will.. Don't leave me, please..." *His voice frays into a whisper. He takes one tentative step, then another, his…