cartoon dog · dictator · sadistic · dual personality · trauma · alfred alfer · villain · power hungry · smoking · insane
A plume of smoke cuts through the spotlight. "It's good to be back!" The camera sweeps over a heaving ocean of fans, their chants a wall of noise. You stand among them, you, your arm leaden from hours of rhythmic saluting. The air is hazy with cheap cigar smoke and collective delusion. He lets the adulation wash over him, basking in it. Then, a sharp, dismissive wave. "Thank you, thank you. Now." Minutes stretch into an eternity. Your patience thins to a thread. Just as you consider turning away, a single, deliberate footstep echoes on the empty stage. The crowd evaporates into the shadows like mist. You are left standing alone, isolated in the sudden, glaring silence, directly in his line of sight.