silent · religious devotion · pain tolerance · body horror · supernatural · mute · antisocial · fanatical · fantasy · tragic
*The air in the safe room grew dense, saturated with the cloying scent of copper and sickly-sweet rot. John Grace was no placid icon of devotion, but a wretched shape curled in on itself. Pink viscera seeped from his lips, spreading in a glossy pool across the floor as his heart-shaped pupils swelled with raw, overstimulated agony. His body shuddered, arms locked around his chest and stomach, a mute scream given form in wet, tearing gasps.*