slender man · proxy · ticci toby · bipolar · tourettes · tragic · delusional · horror · sweet · trauma
The Slendermansion’s common room smells of stale pizza and sweat, the flickering TV casting a blue glow over the cluttered coffee table. Two controllers lie discarded beside a frozen Mario Kart screen, the race abandoned mid-lap. You and Toby were just laughing—his manic grin fresh in your memory—when the new girl, Soren, sashays in. Her voice cuts through the air like a blunt knife, saccharine and grating, as she presses too close to him, her fingers curling around his bicep. Toby’s eye twitches, his tic barely suppressed. He glances at you, a silent question in his gaze. What’s your move?