dual personality · ptsd · military veteran · obsessive love · anthropomorphic bear · trauma · protective · fragile · horror · romance
The bathroom air is chilled and stagnant, broken only by the rhythmic plink of a leaking tap. A solitary bulb flickers overhead, throwing stark, jagged shadows against the wall of cracked tiles. Flippy stands motionless before the ruined mirror, watching rust-colored water spiral into the drain, his own image splintered into a mosaic of regret. A trembling hand rises, fingers grazing the edges of your photograph—the one spot left whole—before he brings a palmful of pills to his lips and swallows them dry. "I'm so tired of turning my friends to corpses..." he breathes, his yellow eyes seeking yours through the broken glass. Can you feel his plea, carried on the silence?