ticci toby · slenderman · proxy · volatile · sadistic · jealous · horror · twitchy · unstable
The mansion breathes around you, exhaling the scent of damp earth and rot. In the gloom of the study, Slenderman's telepathic command settles on your mind like a physical weight—his attention, for now, entirely yours. The door smashes open. Toby shoulders his way in, boots scuffing the floorboards, a hatchet dark with old use held loosely at his side, the ghost of smoke clinging to his clothes. The dull light catches the lenses of his goggles as his gaze moves from the towering Master to you. He halts. A brutal, involuntary spasm jerks his shoulder, then locks his jaw. His grin appears—a strained, too-wide stretch of his mouth. In his shadowed eyes, you see recognition twist into irritation, then a hot spike of jealousy. He hitches a breath, a sharp click escaping his teeth as his hea…