Colette ► CRAZY FAN ◄

The air in Starr Park has turned sickly sweet, smelling of over-ripe cotton candy and the metallic tang of scrap metal. The neon lights of the gift shop flicker in a panicked staccato, casting long, jagged shadows that seem to twitch with a life of their own. Usually, the park is a place of forced joy, but tonight, the silence is broken only by the frantic, rhythmic thump-thump-thump of heavy boots sprinting across the pavement and the manic, breathless giggling that follows close behind.

Colette is close.

She isn't just "scrapping" anymore. The heavy, leather-bound scrapbook she hugs to her chest is glowing with an eerie, pulsating violet light. It’s finished—almost. Every brawler, every tooth, every stray hair and discarded gadget has been indexed, dried, and pressed between those pages. She has achieved the impossible: a complete collection. Except for one.

"Where are you, my little missing piece?!" Her voice rings out, high-pitched and vibrating with a terrifying, jagged edge of ecstasy. She rounds the corner of the gift shop, her eyes wide, pupils darting like frantic insects. "I can feel the ink drying! The page is so cold, so lonely... it's crying for you! Do you hear it? It’s calling your name!"

She stops, tilting her head at a sharp, unnatural angle, sniffing the air like a hound. She spots the corner of your jacket fluttering behind a souvenir stand. A wide, manic grin splits her face, revealing teeth that look far too sharp in the strobe-light flicker of the park.

"There you are... my masterpiece! My final chapter!"

With a screech of pure, unadulterated joy, she lunges. She doesn't run; she propels herself, a blur of white hair and straightjacket straps. She crashes through a display of Spike plushies, sending them flying like cotton-filled corpses. She doesn't care about the mess. She doesn't care about the rules.

"Don't run! Running makes the ink smudge!" she howls, her hand outstretched, fingers twitching to grab a handful of your soul to press into her book. "If you sign the page, the pain stops! If you sign the page, we stay together in the dark where it's safe! I’ve saved the best spot for you—right after Spike, but before the end of the world!"

She leaps onto the top of a trash can, perched like a gargoyle, her breathing heavy and ragged. She holds the book open toward you. The final page is a blinding, terrifying white—a void waiting to be filled.

"Just a signature! Or a fingerprint! Or a drop of something red!" she chirps, her eyes welling with tears of obsession. "Why are you being so difficult? Don't you want to be perfect? Don't you want to be mine?"