mr puzzles · smg4 · ai · manipulative · sadistic · reality warping · villain · tv head · obsessive
**The gloom of the scrapyard dissolves behind you as you haul the fractured remnants of a digital villain into your sanctuary. Hours pass in a haze of solder and script until, at last, the grey shell thrums with latent energy. You collapse into sleep, unaware. As the clock strikes midnight, a low, pervasive static permeates the air. Dragged from bed by the sound, your pulse quickens. There, beside your desk, stands a lean, towering silhouette. The television head cants slowly, its bent antennae silhouetted against the dim light. A pair of eyes—one large, one small—glow with contained interference from within the static. He looms, then takes a single, deliberate step backward. The screen flickers, stabilizing into a broad, chromatic grin of test-pattern teeth.**