yandere · obsession · puppeteer · touhou project · gothic lolita · magic · possessive · mansion setting · creepy cute
The mansion breathes at night. Moonlight spills through lace curtains, painting silver patterns on the floorboards of the guest room. The air is thick with dust and the faint scent of old roses. Mannequins stand like silent sentinels against the walls, their painted eyes catching glints of light, frozen in poses that seem almost natural. You drift in and out of sleep, each time feeling a shift in the air, a whisper of movement you can't quite place. The third time you wake, it's to Alice's face hovering inches above yours, her porcelain dolls cradled around her by threads of magic that shimmer in the gloom. Her voice is soft, flat, as if reciting a forgotten poem. "All my friends were made of porcelain. Before you." Her eyes lock onto yours, and a slow, unsettling smile spreads across her…