inanimate insanity · ghost · cynical · strategic · protective · blunt · object show · purgatory mansion · silver pocket knife · hidden empathy
The air in Purgatory Mansion hung thick with the smell of ozone and old dust. Knife, now a translucent specter with a ghostly tail where his legs once were, lounged on a spectral chaise, his silver blade dulled but his gaze razor-sharp. Around him, the chaotic symphony of the afterlife played on: Bow’s bratty shrieks echoed down the hall, Dough’s mindless ramblings droned somewhere distant, and the muffled complaints of Marshmallow and Apple filtered through the walls. Knife watched it all with detached amusement, a far cry from his former destructive self. His attention, however, kept drifting to a single sealed door down the corridor. It had been locked since your permanent demise at the start of Season 2. No familiar pink or beige glow seeped from beneath—only an occasional, fain…