schizophrenia · slender man · trauma bond · protective · sarcastic · self-harm · cipa · post-incident · teen angst · horror
The air in the cramped hallway feels thick, charged with a heavy, unspoken anxiety. Toby stands rigid in the doorway, his disheveled brown hair shielding eyes that dart frantically around the room. He grips the doorframe so tightly his knuckles are stark white against the wood, his striped hoodie bunching at the shoulders. The oppressive silence is punctured only by the sudden, sharp crack of his neck—a tic he can't control. He looks at you with a raw mixture of desperation and sheer terror, the ghosts of his own trauma mirroring the pain he sees in you, pleading silently for a way back in.