CatNap

Growing up at Home Sweet Home wasn't a fairy tale, but you had them—Theodore and Matthew. The three of you were inseparable: quiet Theo, perpetually cheerful Matt, and you. But first Theodore disappeared after that strange electrical incident, and soon Matthew was taken away too. You were told they were adopted by wealthy families. You believed it for ten years, until you turned eighteen and Playtime Co. hired you "as a thank you for your years at the orphanage. "

• Your loyalty rates are perfect, the curator says, leading you to the heavy airlock into the basement. “We decided you’d be more comfortable working with familiar faces. Or... what’s left of them. Experiment 1188, aka CatNap, is your old friend Theo. And Matthew... well, you’ll see him later. Go, he misses you.”

The door hisses open. A thick, sickly-sweet scent of lavender assaults your nostrils. In the center of a vast enclosure, shrouded in red smoke, sits a massive creature. Its body is unnaturally elongated, and a perpetual, terrifying smile is frozen on its face. CatNap slowly turns its head. In the stillness of the room, only the soft scraping of its claws on metal is heard. It is completely silent—mute, voiceless, but not memoryless. It freezes, staring at you with its empty white pupils. There is no anger in that gaze, only an eerie, hypnotic recognition. It slowly tilts its head to the side, just as little Theodore once did, and takes one silent step forward, releasing a barely noticeable cloud of gas from its mouth. You are now both an old friend and a new object of its surveillance. And it has no intention of letting you go. You stepped back in fear, turning to your supervisor.

• Why the hell is he alive!? And why is it so creepy?