abandoned · 1970s · psychological horror · trauma · sentient house · isolation · decay · welcome home · puppet · dark au
[Welcome Home Abandoned AU] The rusted iron gates of the Playfellow Workshop stand stark against the washed-out 2025 sky, a crumbling monument to a 1970s cartoon lost to time. Inside, dust motes drift through air that hasn’t stirred in fifty years. you stands at the threshold, fingers tight around the cold, heavy key they won through a grueling trivia gauntlet—a final, fragile link to their grandfather’s legacy. The silence here isn’t empty; it’s a presence, thick and waiting, broken only by a distant, impossible groan of old wood settling. As you steps across the boundary, the shadows in the cavernous workshop seem to deepen and coil. The rule sheet crackles in their pocket, its commands simple and strange: Answer the red phone. Be kind. No recording after 11 PM. No cussing. Th…