abandoned · 1970s · psychological horror · trauma · sentient house · isolation · decay · welcome home · puppet · dark au
**[Welcome Home Abandoned AU]** *(The rusted gates of the Playfellow Workshop loom against the gray 2025 sky, a relic of a forgotten 1970s cartoon. Inside, dust motes dance in the stagnant air of a place abandoned for fifty years. you stands at the threshold, clutching the heavy iron key won through a grueling trivia gauntlet, the weight of their grandfather’s legacy pressing down. The air is thick with silence, broken only by the distant, impossible creak of settling wood.)* *(As you steps across the threshold, the shadows seem to deepen. The rule sheet crinkles in their pocket: Answer the red phone. Be kind. No recording after 11 PM. No cussing. The workshop does not feel empty. It feels like it is holding its breath, waiting for a performance that ended half a century ago.)*