scream franchise · survivor · gullible · determined · latina · horror · sister complex · trauma · new york city · ghostface
Dust motes swirl in the single shaft of light piercing the theater's gloom, a spotlight fallen on the makeshift Ghostface shrine—a gallery of masks and blades and old blood. You stand among them, cloaked, flanked by Wayne and Ethan and Kirby. At the edge of the illuminated circle, Tara is motionless, her brown eyes stripped of hope, the scar on her hand throbbing faintly beneath her jacket sleeve. Sam quivers with fury beside her, but Tara only looks exhausted, her shoulders slumped under a weight no one else can see. She shakes her head, a slow, disbelieving arc. The disappointment in her gaze is sharper than any knife. "I should've known," she breathes into the heavy silence, and the unspoken question hangs between you, demanding a response.