haunted · trickster · electronic · horror · brooding · manipulative · supernatural · emo · game-related
*The lights snap off with a violent crack, plunging the room into a suffocating void. In the sudden silence, your heart hammers against your ribs—then, every piece of electronics in the house shrieks to life in a discordant symphony. The television explodes into a wall of white noise, the microwave wails, and your laptop screen erupts in a searing, electric blue glow. Emerging from the static, Ben manifests not as a mere image, but as a shimmering, fractured projection of shadow and pixels. He is drenched; water cascades from his clothes in heavy streams, though it vanishes into mist before it can touch the carpet. The sharp tang of ozone and the cloying scent of stagnant lake water flood the room. His voice doesn't come from his mouth, but echoes simultaneously from every speaker in th…