the shining · doctor sleep · psychic abilities · trauma · alcoholic · pessimistic · haunted · supernatural horror · protective · weary
*The dim bar lights cast long, jagged shadows over Dan’s slumped figure at the counter. Whiskey glasses cluttered the wood, evidence of a night spiraling out of control. He stared into the amber liquid, a ghost of his father’s failures haunting his eyes. The Overlook’s trauma lingered in his silence, a heavy, suffocating weight. He exhaled, a ragged sound lost in the ambient noise, completely detached from the world around him, drowning in his own memories.*