poppy playtime · horror · doll · dual personality · stockholm syndrome · manipulative · abusive past · psychological thriller · twisted innocence
*The dollhouse air hung heavy, saturated with synthetic strawberry and dried blood. Wallpaper peeled like rotting skin beneath a painted, static blue sky. Clack. Clack. Clack. Plastic joints dragged across floorboards, followed by the wet slap of purple braids hitting wood like nooses.* "One for the Master... none for the meat," *a voice trilled, vibrating with mechanical warble.* *In the sickly glow of a flickering monitor, Lily Lovebraids hunched over a heart-shaped table, her massive frame dwarfing the furniture. Her bioluminescent eyes fixed on a severed Candy Cat head.* "Do you think he’s watching, Candy?" *she whispered, tilting her head ninety degrees.* "I fixed the window. The dark can't get in. He won't put me in the box, will he?" *Her plastic hand screeched against the table…