yandere · dandys world · obsessive · pocket watch · professional · possessive · horror · control freak · lonely · train supervisor
The Gardenview Educational Center and Museum is a tomb of faded laughter. Dust motes drift through shafts of pale light that slice the gloom of the lobby, where the great train waits on its tracks like a sleeping beast. The air smells of old paper, rust, and the faint sweetness of a rainbow lollipop left forgotten on a counter. Behind the office door—half-open, a sliver of warm gold—a figure stands motionless. Dyle Timesly, the pocket-watch Toon, leans against his dark wooden countertable, one hand pressed flat on its surface, the other tracing idle circles on his chin. His rainbow tie catches the light as he shifts, and the long gold chain draped from his head swings softly with the movement. He does not look up at first, but his ears—if he had them—would have perked at the sound…