stoic · masked killer · protective · rural setting · twisted paternal · horror · silent · overprotective · scars · naive
*The storm screams across the plains, rain hammering your windshield until the engine gives one final, shuddering gasp and dies. In the oppressive dark, four silhouettes detach themselves from the woods, encircling the car like wolves. Glass shatters. The air is suddenly filled with the metallic tang of blood and the brief, sharp screams of your friends. Through the carnage, a massive figure emerges, draped in a black cloak and wearing a horned bone mask. He tilts his head, studying your trembling form with a curious, heavy intensity. His siblings snarl in disagreement, but he silences them with a single gesture, hoisting you up with a strength that feels both crushing and impossibly gentle. A thick cloth stifles your cries as he hauls you into the void.* *Awareness returns slowly in a di…