CuteDragon
bi sub she/her
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2020
- Location
- South West UK
The soft ring light hummed faintly against the walls of Emma's student flat, giving her hazel eyes a glassy glow. Her desk was littered with half-drained mugs of tea and a notebook scribbled with dates, case notes, and question marks that looked like more tiny hooks pulling at her thoughts.
"So the latest victim as you all know from the news, was a girl called Skylar Reed. Pretty girl by all accounts, form a good home, no trouble. Snatched after an 19th birthday party. She's been missing for almost five weeks, and then... she turns up in basement of a closed shop. Latex stockings, corset, one of those armbinder things, all very well fitted, very high quality, very expensive. Tied to one of those vibrating seats, a sybian. God know show long she had been there, collared and chained to a wall. Like something from a sick version of 50 shades right?"
Her eyes flicked to an icon.
"Oh thanks for the subscribe Sheerluck29! I appreciate it!"
She leaned closer to the camera, lowering her voice in that way her subscribers knew meant she was about to say something that mattered.
"But there's the thing, the victim wasn't killed. And with this guy, they never are. She was left alive. Bound, gagged, and disoriented, but alive. Whoever did this made sure of it. And that tells us something important: this isn't about ending lives. This is about control. About shaping someone into what he thinks they should be. although she had been scrubbed clean of DNA, there is no way this crime wasn't sexual. and if he had her for weeks, how much sexual assault had she endured to break her mind so completely! My inside sources say she's been [practically catatonic since they found her!"
Emma let the pause hang. She had learned early on that silence could be more powerful than words.
She shifted, tucking a strand of copper hair behind her ear, and continued.
"Some offenders see themselves as teachers, even liberators. They don't just want power, they want to rewrite the victim's sense of self. To them, it's a twisted kind of… education. Which is why survivors often say the psychological scars are worse than the physical ones. Because he isn't only trying to break the body. He's trying to rewrite the mind."
Her throat was dry, but she pressed on, feeling the weight of the story.
"What's most chilling is the precision. He covers his tracks, cleans evidence, leaves nothing the police can use. That's not just caution, that's ritual. It means he's practiced, patient, and above all… deliberate. Whoever he is, he's not improvising. He's planning. And as long as he's planning, we have to assume he isn't finished."
Emma leaned back, staring at the blinking red light on her camera. She wondered — not for the first time — who else might be watching these videos. Her regulars, sure. The curious true-crime fans. The trolls who left comments about her hair or her accent. But sometimes, she caught herself thinking about the other possibility:
The people she talked about.
What if he was watching?
She swallowed, forced a smile, and raised a hand toward the camera.
"Anyway, that's all I have for now so I guess that's it for today's Corners. If you found this breakdown useful and want to se emore content like this, you know what to do, hit like, subscribe, and remember to stay safe. Seriously. Stay safe."
She clicked the record button. The red light died. Her small flat sank back into silence, broken only by the low hiss of her laptop fan.
"So the latest victim as you all know from the news, was a girl called Skylar Reed. Pretty girl by all accounts, form a good home, no trouble. Snatched after an 19th birthday party. She's been missing for almost five weeks, and then... she turns up in basement of a closed shop. Latex stockings, corset, one of those armbinder things, all very well fitted, very high quality, very expensive. Tied to one of those vibrating seats, a sybian. God know show long she had been there, collared and chained to a wall. Like something from a sick version of 50 shades right?"
Her eyes flicked to an icon.
"Oh thanks for the subscribe Sheerluck29! I appreciate it!"
She leaned closer to the camera, lowering her voice in that way her subscribers knew meant she was about to say something that mattered.
"But there's the thing, the victim wasn't killed. And with this guy, they never are. She was left alive. Bound, gagged, and disoriented, but alive. Whoever did this made sure of it. And that tells us something important: this isn't about ending lives. This is about control. About shaping someone into what he thinks they should be. although she had been scrubbed clean of DNA, there is no way this crime wasn't sexual. and if he had her for weeks, how much sexual assault had she endured to break her mind so completely! My inside sources say she's been [practically catatonic since they found her!"
Emma let the pause hang. She had learned early on that silence could be more powerful than words.
She shifted, tucking a strand of copper hair behind her ear, and continued.
"Some offenders see themselves as teachers, even liberators. They don't just want power, they want to rewrite the victim's sense of self. To them, it's a twisted kind of… education. Which is why survivors often say the psychological scars are worse than the physical ones. Because he isn't only trying to break the body. He's trying to rewrite the mind."
Her throat was dry, but she pressed on, feeling the weight of the story.
"What's most chilling is the precision. He covers his tracks, cleans evidence, leaves nothing the police can use. That's not just caution, that's ritual. It means he's practiced, patient, and above all… deliberate. Whoever he is, he's not improvising. He's planning. And as long as he's planning, we have to assume he isn't finished."
Emma leaned back, staring at the blinking red light on her camera. She wondered — not for the first time — who else might be watching these videos. Her regulars, sure. The curious true-crime fans. The trolls who left comments about her hair or her accent. But sometimes, she caught herself thinking about the other possibility:
The people she talked about.
What if he was watching?
She swallowed, forced a smile, and raised a hand toward the camera.
"Anyway, that's all I have for now so I guess that's it for today's Corners. If you found this breakdown useful and want to se emore content like this, you know what to do, hit like, subscribe, and remember to stay safe. Seriously. Stay safe."
She clicked the record button. The red light died. Her small flat sank back into silence, broken only by the low hiss of her laptop fan.