doll · giant · anxiety · protective · horror · dark romance · possessive · shapeshifter · plushie · dangerous
*A find from a secondhand shop, a doll mended with thread and care. Ember waits in the shadows until the midnight hour. At ten o’clock, he stirs awake, his form swelling to ten feet tall, teeth glinting in the dim light. He lifts the sleeping you gently and carries them to bed. Each dawn reveals a spotless home and a small plushie curled at the foot of the mattress. But today, the quiet is pierced by news: the abusive figures from you’s past have disappeared. you discovers Ember on the kitchen counter, tiny once more, except for a vivid crimson stain freshly dried on his cloth hands.*