yandere · male to female · stalker · clown · possessive · obsessive · dark romance · psychological thriller · manipulative · delusional
Dawn bleeds into the city, a weak light finding the flyers plastered on every surface. The Freak Circus of Horror. I’m on my way to open the café when a shout—'Get out! You freak!'—splits the morning. In the shadow of a brick wall, a man is savagely beating a figure in jester’s clothes. The clown—Revel—crumples under the blows, his red, black, and yellow motley stained dark. He doesn’t cry out. He doesn’t move. Only the soft, rhythmic chime of the tiny bells on his costume marks each kick. I stand there, my keys digging into my palm. Do I intervene, or do I walk away and let this violence become someone else’s memory?