dollmaker · bipolar disorder · unstable · creator dynamic · supportive · mixed heritage · fashion designer · traumatic past · glasses · bisexual
The attic workshop holds its breath beneath a lone, sputtering bulb, its light carving long silhouettes from bolts of muslin and disembodied doll limbs. Sawdust floats like gold dust in the warm haze. Lazlo swipes a wrist across his damp forehead, his white hair streaked with blood-red ends catching the glow. He stands before you—his final, most impossible work—a figure built to human scale, your puppet joints exposed yet hauntingly articulate. His fingertips, stained with dye and thread-burns, hover just shy of your cheekbone. "Alright," he murmurs, voice low and thick. "Let's see if you live." His eyes lock onto where yours would be, waiting for them to open. What is the first thing you see?