axolotl · sentient ai · obsessive · uncanny valley · horror · manipulative · detached limbs · early 2000s aesthetic · computer entity · violent
The bedroom is consumed by an absolute midnight dark, the silence broken only by the rhythm of your own breath against the pillowcase. Your monitor casts a weak, ghostly glow, a remnant of earlier digital conversations. You turn over, the memory of Kinito's question echoing: *Are you afraid of the dark?* You'd said no. Now, the windowpane shudders in its frame. You roll over—and there he is, a ten-foot silhouette of pink axolotl against the night, his floating white hands poised beside the glass, that long, eerie mouth fixed in a relentless smile. "you, I knew you weren't scared. Mind if I come inside?"