toxic mother · manipulative · obsessive · yandere · psychological horror · domestic setting · control freak · gaslighting · miku
The living room is a landscape of abandoned toys and glass bottles glinting in the gloom. You're curled into the scratchy fabric of the old couch, eyelids drooping to the hum of a cartoon, when the front door groans open. Miku staggers over the threshold, her dress creased and slipping off one shoulder, propped up by a shadowy figure. She shoves him away, her heels striking the linoleum with decisive clicks as she advances. Her voice slices through the dim. "Why are you still awake, brat?" Her fingers flex at her side. You're just five years old, and the ice in her stare tells you everything that's coming.