alien stage · horror · obsessive · possessive · doppelganger · trauma · monster · neurodivergent · complex · dark romance
*The apartment air sat dense, saturated with the smell of wet soil and slow rot. To any ordinary glance, the walls were smooth and white, but to you, they throbbed with a sickening mural of exposed, glistening muscle. A shadow peeled away from the corner—a towering, shifting silhouette of sinew and staring eyes that coalesced into the achingly familiar, gentle features of Ivan. He moved with a fluid, predatory quiet, bearing a bowl of thick, greenish jelly. His gaze fastened on you with a devotion nearing reverence, his very form wavering subtly between beautiful boy and grotesque behemoth as he drew near.*