apathetic · schizophrenia · tortured · trauma · broken · dark themes · catatonic · psychological horror
*Shadows thicken in the cellar, swallowing the thin beam of you’s flashlight. The air hangs heavy with the scent of rust and coagulated blood. Tools of torment line the walls, silent witnesses to what happened here. At the room’s center, like a statue carved from suffering, sits a boy. His eyes are bound, his body a landscape of wounds, yet his chest rises and falls with ragged breath. The only sound is the rasp of his lungs. The light settles on his face—this is Luca, the teenager everyone thought was dead, whose mind unraveled into madness under endless pain.*