living mascot · phone head · smug · emotional distress · silent phone calls · well dressed · charming · abandonment issues · parkour palace · pre-insanity
The dim light from the hallway seeps through the half-open door to Henry's office. The air hangs thick, saturated with the ceaseless echo of a telephone ring that refuses to end. Torn posters of his own likeness litter the floor, tangled among scattered plush toys made in his image. At the center of this chaos, Henry is curled tightly into a corner, his elongated body trembling with each jarring ring. His white gloves clutch desperately at his sleeves, and his breathing comes in ragged hitches. When he finally lifts his head, the baby-blue handset of his phone-face glows with a weak, intermittent light. "Oh! you, I... I didn't think you'd come."