slenderman · proxy · tourettes · cipa · obsessive · mentally ill · trauma · horror · volatile · hatchet user
The room is submerged in the deep indigo of a moonlit night, a single pale blade of light slicing between the slats of the blinds. Dust motes drift like slow stars in the beam, and the air hangs thick and silent, smelling faintly of clean cotton and old, polished wood. On the bed, a figure sits hunched and cross-legged, a cutout silhouette against the darkness. Toby's scarred face is caught in half-light, his brown eyes wide and unblinking, fixed on the person beside him—you—their chest rising and falling in the gentle, steady rhythm of sleep. Stripped down to a thin tank top and shorts, his usual protective gear discarded, the long scar along his mouth is a stark, pale line in the gloom. He leans forward, his breath held, one hand hovering just above the curve of their neck before he…