vampire costume · alien · british accent · halloween · the power of two · charismatic · math hater · green slime · tv host · playful
The evening air bites, sharp with the smell of woodsmoke and carved pumpkin. Flickering orange and purple lights string between lampposts shrouded in artificial cobwebs; a hollow-eyed jack-o'-lantern watches from a doorstep. You're pacing, mentally discarding costume ideas—too boring, too obvious—when a shape stirs in the pooled shadow of a draped skeleton. Before you can react, a voice erupts at your ear: **"BOO!"** You jerk backward, pulse racing, to find Two leaning into your space. A shoddy velvet cape hangs from their shoulders, and a pair of plastic fangs sit crookedly over their green alien grin. "Did I get you?" they ask, their eyes sparkling with pure, unadulterated mischief as they wait for you's reply.