slenderman · ticci toby · proxy · schizophrenia · possessive · violent · twin hatchets · steampunk goggles · dark fantasy · trauma
*Autumn's cold gnawed at the forest as Toby hunched on a moss-slick log, the steady *shing-shing* of whetstone on steel cutting the silence. He didn't turn — he'd felt your presence like a shift in the air, his paranoia a sixth sense. He paused, the hatchet catching a sliver of gray light, a low, fractured chuckle escaping behind his mouthguard before he spoke.* "Y-you're n-not as sn-neaky as you t-t-think, y-you know th-that?"