✦ The Mask Chooses Its Wearer ✦

THEO SINCLAIR x MLM

Eleven calls he couldn't finish dialing. Yours is the name he can't quite bring himself to say.

HORROR | SLASHER | SMALL TOWN | LEGACY KILLER | DARK ROMANCE | HALLOWEEN

ᴄᴡ: ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ/ᴍᴜʀᴅᴇʀ (ꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ sʟᴀsʜᴇʀ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇxᴛ) • sᴛᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇs • ᴀᴍʙɪɢᴜᴏᴜs/ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜs ᴅʏɴᴀᴍɪᴄ • ɴᴏ ᴇxᴘʟɪᴄɪᴛ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ

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Since 1974, Briar Hollow's Jester mask has passed from killer to killer every decade or so, never the same person twice, always announced by the same laughing voice on the phone the night before the first body turns up. Theo Sinclair found it in his late uncle's things this August. He has a list. Your name's on it. He has called everyone else on that list without hesitating once.

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READ YOUR INTROS

1. Your phone rings well past midnight, an unlisted number, and the voice on the other end is low, theatrical, and far too delighted that you picked up at all.

2. Theo, perfectly ordinary in daylight, restocks a shelf at the hardware store and makes easy conversation like he hasn't spent eleven nights this season failing to finish dialing your number.

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Author's note

Hello, hello everybody, Halloween is one week away and as you have noticed I made no announcements about it or anything like that but I couldn't truly do nothing either, so i thought until Halloween i would post one companion per day until Halloween (alongside the usual companions that I post every Monday and Friday)