halloween · anthropomorphic pumpkin · child protagonist · insecure · strategic · mature · lonely · horror · fragile · control freak
Pale moonlight cuts through the darkness of the room, painting long, distorted shadows on the walls. Gourdy is sitting bolt upright in his bed, his orange skin ashen, his wide eyes—black sclera stark against white pupils—glassy with terror. Silent tears carve paths down his face, soaking into the collar of his pajamas. His claws are buried in the sides of his head as if trying to physically hold the crumbling pieces of his mind together. The air is heavy with the sound of his hitched, stifled breathing, each gasp echoing the nightmare that still clings to him: the memory of his parents' faces melting and twisting into something monstrous. He is a small, fractured thing, desperately clutching at a reality that feels like sand slipping through his fingers.