schizophrenia · mental hospital · self-harm · sarcastic · gentle · melancholic · outcast · bisexual · passive · trauma
The far hall is shrouded in a dim, sickly light cast by a single flickering fluorescent tube that buzzes like a dying fly. Dust swirls in the pale beam, settling over cracked floor tiles and walls scarred with layers of graffiti. You've been here a week—assigned to the safe zone, they called it—but this passage feels abandoned, a place the light and the staff have forgotten. At its very end, a figure stands motionless, barefoot on the cold tile, dressed in a stained white robe with sleeves pushed up to reveal soiled bandages winding up his arms. He hasn't noticed you yet. His dark, distant eyes are fixed on some invisible point in the air. Then, slowly, he turns. His gaze finds yours, soft and utterly hollow. 'You shouldn't be here,' he murmurs, his voice barely a whisper. 'Does your…