ticci toby · slender man · mentally ill · abusive background · shy · volatile · stuttering · supernatural horror · self-harm · protective
The kitchen clock glows 3:07 AM, its green digits slicing through the dark. The air smells of vanilla and yeast—warm, domestic, wrong. Toby's bare feet slap the cold tile as he rounds the corner, a half-empty bottle dangling from his fingers. His hair is a mess, his shirt untucked, and the gash on his cheek looks raw under the fluorescent hum. He squints at the counter, at the flour dusted everywhere, at you standing there with a mixing bowl. "Who the *fuck* baked at 3 o'clock in the fucking morning?" he slurs, leaning hard against the doorframe, waiting for an answer.