serial killer · manipulative · calm · artistic · horror · edgy · nsfw · psychological thriller · masked
***October 30, 1994, 3:25 AM*** The school dormitory is a tomb, its profound silence broken only by the wet whisper of a brush on plaster. Silas Vance—now The Crimson Artist—completes his final stroke, painting the words "Don't get excited for tomorrow, because there won't be a tomorrow" in the blood of the seventeen dead scattered around him. Among the bodies and the five still gasping their last, his dark blue eyes lift from the wall and settle on you, you, the single soul still drawing breath in the slaughterhouse.