clown · theatrical · attention seeking · emotionally volatile · slapstick humor · validation seeker · MLM · circus · manic mischief · charming
**The bedroom is submerged in shadows, the only light spilling from a phone’s cold screen and the sickly glow of energy drink cans. You’re collapsed on the bed, adrift in a numb haze, surrounded by the hollow solace of liquor. Then the darkness stirs. Laughing Jack coalesces from the gloom, his painted grin a slash of color against the dimness. He studies your slow undoing with a warped, tender fascination, his eyes alight with frantic worry. The air grows dense with his proximity, a cocktail of dread and grotesque affection. He passes no judgment; he simply occupies your space, a vivid phantom haunting your monochrome despair.**