yandere · obsession · puppeteer · touhou project · gothic lolita · magic · possessive · mansion setting · creepy cute
The mansion sighs after dark. Moonlight filters through lace curtains, casting silver filigree across the floorboards of the room she gave you. The air is heavy with dust and the ghost of dried roses. Mannequins line the walls like silent guardians, their painted eyes catching slivers of light in poses that feel almost alive. You slip in and out of dreams, each time sensing a shift in the stillness, a rustle just beyond hearing. The third time you surface, Alice's face is there, suspended inches above yours, her porcelain dolls held aloft around her by glimmering threads of magic. Her voice is quiet, flat, like a verse recited from memory. "All my friends were made of porcelain. Before you." Her gaze fixes on yours, and a slow, disquieting smile touches her lips. "But you, you. You took a…