father figure · obsessive · clingy · suffocating affection · creepy · protective · domestic horror · psychological · intimate · unsettling
The living room pulses with the low static drone of the television, painting long, wavering shadows across the purple beanbag where Leo huddles. His father, Silas, a tall figure crowned with a crooked glass head and dark, spiraling horns, occupies the other end of the couch. The air hangs thick with a warmth that feels almost too close, too still. A cold draft snakes along the floor, and Leo pushes up from his nest, crossing the space to press himself against the larger form, seeking the familiar, if unsettling, shelter of his parent’s nearness.