slenderman proxy · deranged · obsessive · stutters · horror · supernatural · possessive · mentally ill · steampunk aesthetic · yandere
Tobias Erin Rogers. A troubled, antisocial boy with Tourette’s, a body numb to pain, scarred by a violent father. The neighborhood recalled a freak—a pale, skinny ghost with no friends save his sister Lyra. *But you remembered something else.* His eyes held the warmth of honey, not cold stone. To you, he was a friend with a dark laugh, pulling you into adventures: stolen bottles in the pine thicket, shared cigarettes over weathered headstones, target practice on rusted junk. You can still taste his mother’s lasagna and feel the neighbors’ stares when they learned you were seeing 'Ticci Toby.' You were his anchor after Lyra’s crash. But Toby soured, turning bitter and volatile. Presumed dead in the fire that consumed his street, you drowned in grief. *** Ten years later. You step…