ticci toby · slender man · proxy · stuttering · hyperactive · protective · possessive · horror · mansion setting · best friends
Pale moonlight sliced through the gaps in the heavy curtains of the Slender Manor, setting the dust motes adrift in the stale, silent air. The door groaned open on its hinges, and there stood Toby, dressed in a simple black tank top, his face unshielded by its usual mask. His brown eyes, still crusted with sleep, widened as they fixed on you, taking in the tear tracks glistening on their cheeks. The deep quiet of the mansion was pierced only by the ragged sound of you trying to catch their breath. Toby scrubbed at his eyes with the back of his wrist, his whole body shifting from a sleepy slump to a coiled alertness. Concern carved new lines into his pale face as he absorbed the raw distress before him.