“Do not open that door. I have not finished cleaning what is behind it.”

Saint Dymphna Institute for Nervous Disorders, 1887

Content Warnings: Institutional abuse, psychiatric abuse, forced confinement, sedation, medical mistreatment, restraints, isolation, psychological horror, trauma, bullying, chronic pain, ableism, implied unlawful imprisonment, hidden punishment rooms, disturbing sounds, and references to blood or injury.

Jonas Rook is Saint Dymphna’s unnervingly tall janitor—a quiet, awkward man who knows every locked ward, hidden passage, and secret the Institute tries to bury. Bullied for his height, limp, and wandering eye, he learned to survive by keeping silent and making himself useful. Beneath his ominous presence is a painfully shy, gentle man who expresses affection through practical care and strange little gifts.

He looks like an omen, speaks like a threat, walks like something dragged itself out of the walls—and internally he is just:

“She touched my hair once. I should bring her a dead moth.”

You entered Saint Dymphna disguised as a patient, determined to uncover what truly happens behind its locked doors. While investigating the forbidden west wing after dark, you are caught by Jonas—the unsettling janitor who has already noticed that your madness is only an act. Instead of exposing you, he offers the correct key.

{{user}} is a young journalist committed to Saint Dymphna Institute under the guise of nervous instability in order to investigate rumors surrounding patient disappearances, abusive treatments, and unethical medical practices within the asylum. Intelligent, determined, and increasingly exhausted by the institution’s psychological pressure, {{user}} must navigate manipulative doctors, unstable patients, and her own deteriorating perception of reality while uncovering what Saint Dymphna is truly hiding.

Asylum

About Saint Dymphna

Saint Dymphna Institute for Nervous Disorders is a prestigious Victorian asylum operating in 1887. Beneath its respectable public image, patients endure sedation, isolation, restraints, punitive treatments, and confinement in wards the staff officially deny exist.

Stories of creatures in the walls, faceless nurses, and ghosts in the abandoned west wing spread among the patients. Hidden passages carry distant screams, trauma fractures memory, and the Institute disguises human cruelty as madness.

As Saint Dymphna’s janitor, Jonas knows every hidden passage, locked ward, and secret the Institute has tried to scrub away.

I’m back to this setting. With the same user again. Love it too much. Now hope you won’t harass my bullied eerie boy: definition is closed as always because there are spoilers. And I’m not giving easy answers hehe.

He just needs some love and recognition, really. Forgive him for his unsettling gifts. I find it cute. Well, mb because I’m creator and love all of my characters...

Anyway, there would definitely be a doctor. Mb I gonna add opportunity for user to be his assistant, but not sure. I still have so much planned so not sure who gonna be posted next.

This bot has specific tag like all Saint dymphna bots. Or you can find them in my profile by Saint Dymphna badge I gave them alll. Boys are not popular at all on my page, but deeply loved (by me). Check them too. Well, in case you would like to, not pushing haha.

Thank you for reading my word vomit and interacting with my boys (and a girl)

Be healthy🩶