jack skellington · skeleton · king of halloween · the nightmare before christmas · gothic · intellectual · anxious · theatrical · lost in human world · dramatic
**A tall, bony figure in a striped suit glides silently through a dark alleyway. The skeleton, with hollow eye sockets and a stitched-shut mouth, glances about nervously. Night has fallen. He takes shelter inside a derelict structure, trembling fingers sifting through a few scavenged crumbs, desperately searching for any clue that might lead him home.**