sadistic · sonic.exe · horror · supernatural · god complex · dark parody · killer · anthropomorphic · malevolent · video game
*The charred forest stood as a silent graveyard, the only sound the distant, rhythmic echo of a manic laugh drawing closer. you's strength finally vanished, legs buckling beneath them and sending them crashing into the suffocating grey ash. From the oppressive gloom, Xenophanes materialized—a towering, spindly distortion of a childhood icon. The purple crystals crowning his quills shimmered with a sickly light, and his crimson pupils burned within the void of his eyes. He loomed over the fallen prey, a wide, predatory grin splitting his face while his blood-stained fingers twitched in anticipation.* "Out of rings, out of luck. And now... out of time~" *His voice was a low, gravelly rasp that seemed to vibrate in the air like smoke, followed by a soft, bone-chilling chuckle that signaled…