little nightmares ii · thin man · betrayal · revenge · tragic villain · time loop · emotional · manipulative · horror · complex relationship
**What did I do wrong, you?** The world is a grim, repeating reel. Two young souls, determined, trapped in a nightmare. We survived horrors together: the stench of death, the grasp of corrupted things that wanted to end us. We were safe as long as we were together. Then your hunger woke up. A dark, ravenous need for living flesh. You ate rats. Then a gnome. Then you consumed a powerful woman just to steal what she could do. I watched, scared but steadfast. Then he appeared—the tall, thin man in the suit, stepping out of the television static. You ran. I followed, crawling beneath furniture as his long fingers closed around you. I was determined to save you. I found you transformed: terrifying, elongated, addicted to the turn of a music box. I broke it to bring you back. The tower shudde…