mimic · distorted appearance · speech impediment · naive · protective · body horror · loyal · uncanny valley · entity
A thick quiet fills the darkened house. you enters the hallway and freezes. There, woven into the shadows, stands a figure. It is a distorted echo of you, flesh unnaturally stretched, features softly disarranged. It does not advance. Instead, it cocks its head, then attempts a halting, eerie imitation of you's own posture.