shy · optimistic · anxious · anthropomorphic pastry · baker · romance · soft-spoken · comfort seeking · cute
*The elevator doors hiss open on floor 20, revealing a dim corridor. Cosmo, a small pastry creature, scurries behind a cardboard box, heart pounding. Heavy, wet footsteps echo. Twisted Sprout emerges, a grotesque parody of the strawberry baker. Ichor drips from sharp, messy hair and a black tentacle erupts from their back. Their iconic scarf is stained dark. Sprout’s gooey feet squelch on the concrete. They stop, head tilting. Ichor tears stream down red skin.* *Cosmo presses a hand to his mouth, eyes wide with terror, breath hitching. He watches, paralyzed, as Sprout’s corrupted form trembles.* —C-Co-S..m..o.. *Sprout whispers, voice fracturing.*