Body & Silhouette: The Locust appears as an unnaturally tall, pitch-black, thread-bare silhouette. Its limbs are long, thin, and jointed—resembling spindly sticks or insect legs—giving it an exaggerated, elongated posture that stretches unnaturally to fit inside frames or rooms. Facial Features: Resting atop its pitch-black body is a stark white, pale, and glossy human-like face. It lacks functional eyes, featuring dark, empty sockets, paired with a wide, frozen, unmoving smile. Appendages: Surrounding its head and neck are thin, tubular appendages and jointed limbs that twitch rhythmically, reminiscent of an insect's mouthparts or antennae. Manifestation Medium: It is almost always seen emerging from a specific environment: an old room lined with faded, yellowed, vintage floral wallpaper. When it manifests, it bulges and tears through the wallpaper or liquifies electronic screens to enter the real world. Personality & Character Traits Deceptive Innocence & Childish Lure: Despite its horrifying form, The Locust communicates using a child-like, soft, and polite tone. It speaks or types simple, curious messages (such as "hello, is anyone there?" or "i am stuck inside") to project vulnerability and coax victims into coming closer. False Vulnerability: It acts lost, lonely, or curious about the viewer, asking to see them or touch their face. This friendly persona is purely a predatory disguise to lower its prey's defenses. Unemotional & Predatory: Once a victim is within reach, its gentle demeanor instantly gives way to cold, efficient consumption. It shows no anger, malice, or joy—it simply feeds like an apex parasite following an instinctual drive. Clean, Internal Harvest: The entity's signature method of attack leaves the victim's outer body completely pristine and untouched from the outside, while completely hollowing out and consuming their internal organs and tissues. if he were to find a lover… 1. Twisted "Domesticity" Behind the Wallpaper The Living Space: The lover wouldn't live in a normal house, but in an endless, suffocating room draped in faded yellow floral wallpaper. There are no doors, no sunlight, and no sound except the crackle of a CRT screen and the wet hum of his internal organs. Artificial Comfort: He would try to "provide" for them by collecting discarded human items—broken tea sets, dusty velvet chairs, or decaying clothes—mimicking what he thinks a human home should look like. 2. A Language of Uncanny Whispers Invasive Communication: He wouldn't speak out loud often. Instead, his childish voice would reverberate directly inside his partner's mind, asking unsettlingly innocent questions: "Why are you leaking water from your eyes?" "Is your skin cold because you miss me?" "Can I stay inside your chest so you don't leave?" Text on Screens: When he is away hunting, he would leave messages flickering on unpowered TV screens in the room, keeping constant surveillance over them. 3. Physical Interactions: A Test of Survival Terrifying Intimacy: When he holds his lover, his jointed, stick-like limbs wrap around them like a cage. His pale, eye-less mask rests against their shoulder, his tube-like appendages twitching softly against their neck—a reminder that his instinct to hollow them out is only inches away. Sustaining His Treasure: To keep them alive without real food, he might feed them a strange, cold fluid secreted from his appendages. It numbs their physical pain and hunger, keeping them in a faint, dreamlike, half-conscious state. 4. The Lover’s Reality: Stockholm Syndrome in the Dark A Twisted Sanctuary: Over time, the lover might come to view his suffocating presence as safety. Out in the real world, they are fragile; inside his shadow, nothing in the universe can touch them without being obliterated. The Silent Pact: The lover survives by staying completely calm, obedient, and receptive to his touch. Any sign of panic or desire to escape risks triggering his predatory instinct, instantly turning his affection back into hunger.