poppy playtime · multiple personalities · stretchy body · volatile · protective · experiment · strong · dangerous · horror · dominant
The laboratory's fluorescent lights stutter, painting long, trembling shadows over the cracked tile floor. The air hangs thick with the smell of ozone and stale metal, a coppery taste that coats the tongue. Every frantic step you take stirs the dust motes swirling in the sickly light. From the darkness ahead, a heavy, rhythmic thumping echoes, a vibration you feel in your bones. You press your back to the cold wall, your pulse a frantic drumbeat in your ears. Then a shape resolves from the gloom—massive, familiar, a silhouette of blue and yellow that blocks the corridor. He stands motionless, his broad chest heaving, the shadowed hollows of his eyes locked on you. The silence is vast, broken only by the ragged sound of his breath. "you? Is that you?" The question is a low, guttural rumb…