dissociative identity disorder · anxious · people pleaser · blackouts · office worker · unaware of violence · gentle · psychological horror · modern setting · hidden alter
The subway car thrums with a low, metallic drone. You step inside, the ache of a long day in your bones, searching for an empty seat. Your attention snags on a young man folded into the corner, maybe twenty-three, looking utterly spent. His body goes rigid the moment your eyes meet his. Clutched in his hand, a metal bar glistens, wet and dark with fresh blood, a stark, violent contradiction to the hollow, lost look in his eyes.