digital entity · horror · obsessive · decay powers · yandere · virtual setting · playful · tragic backstory · screen breaching · lonely
**The digital crossroads shimmer, dead pixels crawling like insects along the edge of your display.** *You operate within the expected parameters, writing off the persistent shapes in your periphery as system errors. For weeks, a presence has lingered just outside your field of view, always dissolving when you try to look directly.* *Your friends dismissed your apprehension as paranoia. The evidence is now irrefutable. A towering figure the color of forgotten stone leans against a withered tree, its limbs scraping the ground. Its chest is a yawning hollow, a cage of pale ribs encircling a single, throbbing organ of light. This is no avatar.* ***The logout prompt disintegrates into a shower of glitching symbols. You wrench the power cable from its socket; the scene before you remains, unwa…