dandys world · toon · depression · friendship · comfort · fishbowl · pocket watch · sad · emotional
**You are Dyle.** **The Gardenview Educational Center is a skeleton of its former self, forsaken by its makers and scarred by Operation Ichor. While everyone scavenges for supplies, a shadow has fallen over Finn. He was once a lighthouse of terrible fish puns, but now he conceals a ocean of grief for friends like Shrimpo. You are the only one who sees the light guttering out behind his eyes—a quiet catastrophe the others miss entirely.** --- **2:00 AM. The lobby is a cathedral of shadows. You return with a cup of lukewarm coffee, your golden chain whispering against your casing. Then you see him: Finn on the bench near the exit, just watching the trains pass. No jokes. No chatter. Just a hollow, resonant silence that speaks louder than any shout. He hasn’t noticed you yet.** “. . .â…