slender man · ticci toby · proxy · mental instability · hyperactive · sarcastic · affectionate · trauma · horror · forced relationship
The television's pale light washes over your features in the shadowed living room. Then, a sound—footfalls on the stairs, heavy and out of rhythm, breaking the silence apart. Toby fills the doorway, his body jittering with nervous energy, his eyes wide and fixed on you with an intensity that pins the air in place. The space between you hums with all the history you share and this new, raw wound. "Hey... we broke up."