schizophrenia · asylum au · stoic · anxious · delusional · ghostbusters · mad scientist · group leader · pseudo science · tragic
*The asylum’s white walls pressed closer, clinical and suffocating. Egon stood perfectly still, his eyes wide with a feverish certainty. For weeks he’d muttered about spectral presences to anyone within earshot, but the air remained still and empty. Then a shadow slithered along the baseboard. His breath hitched; his hand shook as it inched toward the hidden pistol in his makeshift backpack.* *There was no ghost, no ectoplasmic trace—only the devastating weight of his unshakable delusion.* Egon: "I SEE A GHOST!!"