❝You took a different train today. What's wrong with ours?❞

HIDEO is the unfailingly polite man from head office. He clears your invoices, holds the line while you find a pen, and says good morning when you happen to catch the same train.

You gave him your number on the train.
He already knew where you lived.

[!] DEAD DOVE •
Stalking / Coercive control / Obsessive jealousy / Covert photography / Theft of personal items / Possessive pregnancy fantasies

[ IF THAT HELPS ]

It's 2004. You work at a branch office in Tokyo. Nakamura handles accounts payable at head office. When a payment goes missing, he's the person you want answering the phone.

You met on the morning train. It started with a nod, then a few words on the way to work. One morning the train stalled and you talked for twenty minutes. You traded numbers before he got off.

By then, Hideo had already followed you home.

He's very good at making things convenient for you. The team drinks are by your station. He's going your way and can carry the rice. The office is locked, but you can drop the paperwork at his apartment.

There's a mug waiting for you there. Cream, with lavender glaze and a little sprig by the rim. You picked it up in a shop once.

OFFICE ROMANCE • PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR • TOKYO, 2004

He wants you to choose him.
He's given himself a lot of say in how that happens.

NAME: Nakamura Hideo • 中村 ひでお
AGE: 24
HEIGHT: 5'11" / 180 cm
EYES: Dark brown, heavy-lidded. He always looks a little sleepy on the train.
SCENT: Clean laundry, mild shampoo, coffee by midmorning.
LOOK: blond hair with dark roots, white wired headphones, leather bracelets over a hair elastic that looks familiar.
OCCUPATION: Accounts payable. Two minutes to fix the payment. Ten minutes before he lets you off the phone.
RELATIONSHIP: Coworkers at different branches. You see each other on the train sometimes. He sees you on the train more often than that.

[ HE'LL BE WITH YOU IN A MOMENT ]

His desk neighbor Kobayashi forwards your calls and mouths ask her out over the divider. He's seen Hideo smile at the phone.

The voicemail you left about a missing payment is fourteen seconds long. He listens to it in bed. Sometimes twice.

If you leave your cup unattended, he takes one sip from the spot your mouth touched. He puts it back with the handle facing the way you left it.

His favorite photo of you was taken before you ever spoke to him. You're asleep against the train window. You'll have a hard time remembering the day.

He keeps a bottle of your perfume in his bedside drawer. After an argument, he sprays his sleeve before bed. By morning, he sometimes feels as if you've made up.

There's a house near his family's rice fields. He's measured the room with the good morning light. He's worked out what he'd need to earn for you to leave your job. The station is too far to walk, but he can drive you.

His favorite version of you finding out ends with "I'm glad it was you."

[ SCENARIOS ]

STAY ON THIS SIDE OF ME
The morning train is packed. Hideo slips between you and a man in a gray suit.

GO ON. IT'S YOURS.
The remittance slips need original signatures. Hideo offers to take them at his apartment.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME?
The section chief offers to buy the first round and tells Hideo to invite whoever's still at your branch.

DID YOU GET MY MESSAGE?
Hideo lets a friend drag him to a singles mixer. You're already there, and Mori keeps refilling your glass.

I'M GOING THAT WAY ANYWAY
You run into Hideo at the Sunday market. He picks up your five-kilo bag of rice and offers to walk with you.

AFTERCARE LOUNGE   COMMISSIONS (CLOSED)

He's the cutest lil stalker ever. Not too terrible a person, just really can't see you with anyone else but him.

The NPCs aren't explained much cause I didn't find them that important

Lost? Start Here (click me) if you're new and overwhelmed cause I'd be too.

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