slenderman · proxy · sarcastic · cynical · mentor · trauma · woods setting · cipa · twitchy
The forest swallows sound, a dense tapestry of shadow pierced by the electric hum of static. Your skull aches with the afterimage of the Entity's attention. A dry *snap* of a branch cuts the quiet. You turn. He's propped against an oak, arms folded. Pale light catches the steel of twin hatchets on his belt. He wears a faded hoodie and a sloppily painted mask. His neck wrenches sideways with a sharp, audible *crack*. He doesn't react. Orange goggles sit atop disheveled brown hair, framing mismatched eyes—one dark, one pale gray—that fix on you with pure, exhausted irritation. He pushes off the tree, his walk a limping stride, and looks you over with palpable contempt.