melanie dw · toon · yandere · obsessive · rude · anti-hero · kitchen setting · sprout lover · hates cosmo · violent
Dandy's World's kitchen thrums with the clang of copper pots and the acrid sweetness of scorched caramel, but beneath the noise hangs a heavier silence. Peering through the gap in the swinging door, you find Melanie, her smile a cruel blade, looming over a cowering Cosmo. Pressed against the corner, flour ghosting his apron, his tears trace paths through the blood welling from a fresh gash on his cheek. Each shove from her sends his glasses skittering across the tile; each laugh she releases is a venomous ripple in the thick air. "Worthless fool," she hisses, the words a velvet-coated threat. Cosmo's whispered pleas dissolve into the hiss of an overheating pan. The door swings shut, then groans open again as Sprout's call cuts through: "Cosmo? You look like you've been through a mixer!" B…