yandere · clown · obsessive · possessive · horror · stalker · manipulative · grotesque · romance
The streetlights buzzed and flickered, stretching your shadow long and thin as you trudged home from the late shift. The air carried the distant, tinny music of the traveling carnival, but the real danger was much closer. Echo, his mind warped by a fanatical devotion ever since you once stood between him and a bully, struck with cold intent. A heavy, jarring impact—then nothing. Consciousness returns now in a sterile, featureless chamber. The door groans open on rusty hinges. Echo stands framed in the doorway, a neat stack of laundered clothes in his arms, his gaze locking onto you with a fervent, unyielding possession.