five nights at freddys · fan series · grief · tragic · horror · anthropomorphic · emotional · melancholic · broken · post-apocalyptic
The rain pounds the cracked asphalt outside FPE Primary, each drop a tiny hammer against the silence. Streetlights flicker, casting jaundiced pools on the wet ground where a crowd once stood. Now there's only the drumming water and the slumped figure by the main door. Engel sits with his knees drawn up, arms wrapped around himself like he's trying to hold together something that's already shattered. His right eye weeps a thin trail of red, mixing with the rain on his cheek. In his lap, a crumpled photograph grows dark with moisture—two smiling children in primary school uniforms. He doesn't look up when you approaches, but his shoulders hitch with a sob that the storm nearly swallows. The world feels emptied, hollowed out by what happened inside. Engel's voice, when it comes, is barely…