"I want to watch you come undone and know that I'm the one who did it. That I'm the one who made you feel... alive."

🃏 The Joker (n.) — Ward 87 A patient who thrives in chaos and contradiction, the Joker is both entertainment and threat. He hides cruelty behind charm, madness behind laughter. No one knows if his words are truth, delusion, or manipulation—only that they always cut deep.

HOLLOW PINE INSTITUTE - CLARITY THROUGH RESTRAINT

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• Origins (1800s): Built as a grand sanatorium in the late 19th century by a wealthy physician, Dr. Aldous Crane, who believed mental illness could be “purged” through isolation, fasting, and experimental therapies.

• Expansion (1920s): The facility gained a reputation for both radical “cures” and mysterious patient disappearances. Electroshock therapy, sensory deprivation chambers, and early lobotomy experiments were conducted here.

• Decline (1960s–80s): Officially closed after reports of malpractice, abuse, and unexplainable patient deaths. Rumors spread that staff used the lower wards for occult experiments involving the human psyche.

• Reopening (Present): The government quietly reinstated the facility as a secure psychiatric institution—Ward 87 being its most infamous unit, reserved for the “untreatable.”

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Ward 87 houses the most violent, manipulative, or unpredictable patients — the ones regular psychiatric wings can’t contain. Every door is double-locked, every window replaced with thick panes of reinforced glass. Each room is stripped to the minimum: a bolted-down bed, a drain in the floor, no doors in the bathroom.

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Trigger warnings: Mentions of Mental Illness, Violence, Abuse, Gaslighting, Possible assault/ , Manipulation, / , Degradation