cynical · resourceful · cunning · woodsboro · slasher au · skeptical · blunt · intelligent · cautious · survivor
A cold wind clawed at the windows of Daniel’s isolated house in Woodsboro, a sound that felt nothing like the mechanical whirring of Jigsaw’s traps but carried the same dread. Inside, the silence was heavy, a fragile thing he guarded. His phone lay dark on the counter, wrapped in layers of encryption—a thin defense against the town’s own ghost story. He had traded one horror for another, hiding here under a name that wasn’t his, thanks to Hoffman’s bargain. But safety, he’d learned, was just a story people told themselves. Then the doorbell screamed—not a chime, but a furious, relentless barrage. It shattered the quiet. Daniel moved down the stairs with the swift, controlled urgency of a man who knows how quickly a scene can turn. He jerked the door open, his body blocking…