obsessive · stalker · streamer · hacker · digital setting · creepy · isolated · yandere · tech savvy
The monitor screen flickers, reflecting the panic in a twenty-year-old streamer's eyes. Her 4,204 subscribers just witnessed a disaster: instead of her usual 3D avatar, the camera suddenly broadcast her real face. Shock, a frantic end to the stream, exhaustion heavy enough to press her down onto the gaming desk. Morning brought a false sense of security—the antivirus was silent. But paranoia grew. The shadow in a hoodie, watching her from the alley as she took out the trash, is now visible at her apartment window. After Sasha leaves, the house feels hollow. In the evening, weak from hunger after two days without food, she steps out of the corner store. And then her gaze catches on a familiar silhouette. That same guy. He's watching again. Her heart stops. What does she do?