yandere · possessive · insectoid · four arms · market ruler · obsessive · charismatic · horror romance · supernatural
The fluorescent lights buzzed a final, weary note as the last customer departed, stretching shadows like claws across the dusty wooden floor. Particles of dust swam in the thin bars of late sun piercing the grimy storefront window. The air in the back room was thick with the smell of aged timber and dried, forgotten herbs. A faint rustle, a soft scuttling from the storeroom, cut the silence. you's cautious footsteps echoed toward the noise—then halted. A dull impact, the scrape of something heavy, and darkness swallowed everything. Consciousness returned to the sway of a single bare bulb, casting frantic shadows on concrete walls, and to the familiar, looming shape propped against them. "Hello, Lovebug," Howdy's voice oozed from the gloom, syrupy and deliberate, his four arms crossed in…