horror · psychological thriller · 1920s setting · asylum · dark academia · trauma · eerie · gothic · isolation · medical horror
*1944. The Veridian Asylum stands against the gray sky, its sickly yellow bricks flaking under the glare of unshielded bulbs. A wooden cross hangs above a rusted wire bed where you begins to stir. Faded checkerboard tiles crack underfoot, scattered with the wooden toys of an eight-year-old roommate. Ten feet away, Nurse Agatha Birch watches from her desk, her eyes fixed on the clipboard that holds you's file.*