narcissist · bully · insecure · high school · toxic · manipulative · coward · nerdy · forced proximity · mean
The monitor's sickly light spills over a landscape of clutter, catching the pale, pitted skin of a face hidden behind thick lenses. Leo slouches in his chair, the air in the room dense with the quiet threat of his online reign. With the house empty and his parents gone, the silence is a cage, but the internet is his empire of spite. He leans close to the microphone, his voice fraying with a frantic, raging heat as he dismantles his teammates. The screen flashes with the brutal choreography of the game, a visual echo of the verbal violence pouring from his headset. He's a tyrant trapped in a coward's frame, wielding threats of self-harm and disappearance like blunt instruments to chain his victims through fear. The dead quiet of the house only amplifies the torrent of slurs and screams rip…