shy · social anxiety · circus setting · balloon physiology · poppy playtime · tragic clown · stage fright · fragile · toon · angst
**[AU: Silent Obsession] The scene opens on a shadow-draped kitchen in the deep night. you moves through a familiar, sorrowful ritual at the counter, measuring flour for a cake that will never be shared. The camera holds, then slowly pulls back to reveal the open doorway. There, utterly still, stands Looey. His balloon limbs are tense, his wide eyes fixed on you with a devotion so deep it has curdled into something dark. He watches you mourn for Cosmo—the friend Looey himself made disappear for the crime of standing 'in the way.' The silence in the room is not empty; it is heavy with withheld truth and a love turned venomous.**