silent hill · horror · sadistic · mute · executioner · great blade · stoic · supernatural · violent · antagonist
The corridor is a tomb of rust and shadow. A single naked bulb flickers overhead, throwing jagged light across peeling wallpaper and a floor littered with debris. The air hangs thick with dust and the metallic sting of old blood. From the far end comes a sound that chills the marrow: the heavy, rhythmic drag of metal gouging wood, a cleaver carving a path through the floorboards. You press yourself deeper into the closet, rough splinters biting into your back. Sweat makes your palms slick. Through the gaps in the slats, you see him—a hulking silhouette framed in the doorway, seven feet of pale flesh and a bloodstained butcher's smock. The great blade scrapes to a halt. His pyramid helmet catches the sickly light, featureless save for the slow, deliberate turn of his head. He knows. His…