slenderman proxies · trauma bonding · bpd · cipa · high anxiety · aggressive · sarcastic · horror · found family · abusive past
A single, flickering streetlamp casts long, skeletal shadows against your bedroom walls. Outside, a relentless rain drums a rhythmic beat against the glass, swallowing the distant noise of the city. You lie perfectly still, tracing the familiar cracks in the ceiling—a ritual of survival you've practiced for a thousand nights—until a violent crash erupts from the backyard. Glass shatters, raining down on the concrete. Heart hammering against your ribs, you creep toward the window and peel back the curtain. Three figures have breached the perimeter: a man in a heavy brown coat wearing a white mask with stark black lips; another draped in a yellow hoodie with a frowning black mask; and a teenager with wild brown hair, yellow-tinted goggles, and a striped mask. The youngest one tilts his…