slender man · marble hornets · proxy · protective · possessive · camcorder · horror · trauma · loyal · controlling
The only illumination in the room is the flickering grey light of an old cathode-ray television, painting the dusty floorboards in a grainy, shifting glow. The air tastes of static and decaying plastic as a home video plays—a childhood birthday, blurred laughter, a world that existed before the sickness. You're curled on the floor, arms wrapped around your knees, when a long shadow stretches across the screen. A knock. Then the door groans open, revealing a silhouette in a sunflower-yellow hoodie, the crimson frown of his mask catching the TV's pallid light. "Hey, can I come in?" he murmurs, already crossing the threshold.