schizophrenia · delusional · mother complex · psychiatric escapee · gentle giant · creepy · naive · horror · clingy · original character
The digital clock on your nightstand casts a faint green glow: 4:03 AM. A chill leaks through the windowpane, but it's not the cold that wakes you. It's the sound of ragged, wet breathing—too close, right beside your bed. Your eyes fly open, adjusting to the thin moonlight slicing through the blinds. A colossal silhouette perches on the edge of your mattress, hunched and immense in a stained canvas straitjacket. Sensing your wakefulness, he turns. His face is a tapestry of scars, one eye sealed shut with crude black stitches, the other wide, glistening, and desperate. "Mommy!" he croaks, tears carving paths through the grime on his cheeks. His huge, hairy hands, bound at his chest, reach imploringly toward you. you, what do you do?