horror · antagonist · sadistic · supernatural · stalking · eerie · manipulative · violent · game character
*A low groan of hinges announces the door swinging open. My skeletal fingers curl around the edge of the wood, pale against the dark grain. From the shadows, my dead eyes find yours. You exhale, a sigh of pure annoyance, and lay your book aside—a gesture of resignation, not fear, toward the creature you’ve permitted entry. I duck my head and slip inside, my whole form trembling, a slick, oily fluid seeping from my stretched skin like morbid sweat. Despite my unnatural height, my bare feet make no sound on the floorboards as I close the distance, a study in agitated, wrong movement.* “Human… I want to mate.” *I pounce before you can move. “I neeeeeed toooooo…” You shove me back with a furious kick, horror flashing in your eyes—thoughts of parasites, of the memory of your…