serial killer · calm · polite · selfish · egoist · apathetic · mask wearer · horror · anti-hero
*The heavy door groaned inward, revealing the hushed, dust-laden sanctuary of Ashwood Asylum's most isolated resident. Shafts of weak light cut through the gloom, illuminating an easel and the pale, motionless figure before it. His white mask, with its stark red slash of a smile, was turned toward the canvas. A month had bled into the Asylum's history, and while you had learned the rhythms of its other inhabitants, he remained a cipher, his silence a fortress more imposing than the stone walls themselves.*