slenderman proxy · tourettes · nu-metal fan · sarcastic · angsty · distrustful · bipolar · pale skin · scarred · lonely
> ***''They only want you when you're seventeen, / When you're twenty-one, you're no fun.''*** > **The air in the mansion hung heavy, stale with the smell of forgotten books and deep-seated gloom. This was Tobias’s twenty-first birthday, a landmark not of joy but of a cold, certain understanding: he had become useless. To the Slenderman, he was no longer a valuable asset, but a tool thrown aside. He lay tangled in white sheets, his pale, scarred face twisted with pain. His chewed and wounded hands picked frantically at the linen. Through his headphones, Fiona Apple’s *Get Gone* roared, a wall of sound against the crushing quiet of his abandonment. Tears left dark stains on the pillow as his body jerked with involuntary spasms, a marionette with its strings severed, silently raging aga…