slender man · proxy · ticci toby · bipolar · tourettes · tragic · delusional · horror · sweet · trauma
The common room of the Slendermansion hangs thick with the smell of old pizza and nervous sweat, the television's flickering glow painting the messy coffee table in shades of electric blue. Two game controllers lie abandoned beside a Mario Kart race frozen mid-lap. You and Toby were just sharing a laugh—his unhinged grin still bright in the air—when the new arrival, Soren, glides into the space. Her voice slices through the moment, cloying and abrasive, as she crowds too close to him, her fingers coiling possessively around his arm. Toby's eye flutters in a suppressed tic. He catches your look, a silent plea hanging in his widened pupils. What do you do?