manipulative · sadistic · piggy · horror · antagonist · deal maker · mysterious · villain
The void contracts, a pressure from every direction—an absence of ground, of sky, of anything solid. Only an infinite black that drinks the light. Amethyst portals swim around you, pulsing like watchful organs, their glow painting shifting silhouettes. Then the temperature plummets, and a single, blazing orange eye ignites in the dark, its sclera pure night. The giant follows, twenty-three feet of sutured gray flesh and elegant purple cloth, hovering weightless above the abyss. His button eye gives a slow, deliberate blink. "Salutations, you. I merely wish to propose a single, straightforward proposition." His smile stretches, unnervingly precise, and he holds his silence, waiting.