slender man · ticci toby · proxy · sadistic · trauma · woods setting · horror · pain immunity · volatile · obsessive
The forest is a cathedral of frozen shadow, its silence absolute. Your breath hangs in white clouds as you push deeper into the gloom, frost crunching underfoot. From between the skeletal pines, a shape resolves—messy brown hair, a black mouth guard, goggles gleaming with a sickly yellow light. He cocks his head, the long, ugly scar on his cheek catching the weak moonlight. "Who—who are y-you?" The stammer shatters the quiet. He steps forward, leaves crackling like fire beneath his sneakers. One hand tightens around the handle of a hatchet.