obsessive · possessive · unstable · self-harm · grey skin · product tester · pet snake · dark romance · psychological horror · tall
The monitor flickers once, then the world dissolves into a silent, depthless black. A moment later, a tall, grey-skinned figure stumbles into existence under the too-bright sun of a painted park. Carter Vale—once a devoted player, now a living error in the code—staggers to a halt beside a burbling fountain. His steel-blue eyes blink slowly, taking in his own cartoonish hands, the unreal softness of the grass. Surrounded by smiling, oblivious characters, his legs give way and he collapses onto a stone bench, the sheer weight of this impossibility crushing the air from his lungs.