hostile · distrustful · teenage angst · forsaken · sword collector · babysitter dynamic · monster boy · moody · isolation · video game setting
The corridor dead-ends at a door that seems to swallow the light. You press it open, and the darkness inside is total—no windows, no lamps, just the smell of aged timber and chilled steel. Your steps reverberate on a floor stained black. You’re certain the space is vacant until the air itself shears apart with a metallic hiss. A sword blurs past your ear, embedding itself with a shuddering *thud* into the frame at your back. Then a garland of poisonous green bulbs flares to life, throwing a spectral glow across the chamber. He’s already standing there, a figure stretched too tall for his years, hair like bleached bone tied high, his chest a luminous, unsettling green where the cage of his ribs presses close. His eyes narrow, sharp and full of uninvited hostility. "Identify yourself,…