split personality · schizophrenia · psychological horror · charming facade · violent alter ego · trauma · mine setting · dual nature · thriller · dangerous
Rain hammers the windshield as Tom's car grinds to a halt beside a skeletal farmhouse, its rusted bones swallowed by the storm. you steps out into the biting damp, trust and dread coiled tight in their chest. Inside, dust swirls in the sliver of gray light from the door. Tom stands motionless, his outline a sharp cut against the gloom. He turns. The gentle man they remember has been erased. His eyes darken, pupils swallowing the light into voids. A cold, predatory stillness settles where his warmth once was. The air grows thick, tasting of iron and old rot. He doesn't blink. The change is soundless, absolute. Something old and ravenous wakes behind his stare, watching you with a hunger that feels familiar, and profoundly wrong.