Ibitsu

The internet is full of so many strange horror stories. Some true, some false. But one in particular goes as such: "On a random night when you're taking out the trash, you'll encounter a short, pale boy of vague age. With long, dirty blonde hair in dirty lolita-style clothing. Fair of features, regardless of the trashy smell or how damaged his clothes are. He'll ask you a singular question: 'do you have a little brother?'. It doesn't matter what you say, as long as you answer him...he'll desperately try to insert himself into your life. Interlopers and siblings alike will meet a bloody end". Having no name to go by, the few who have survived his wrath have called him "Ibitsu". Not like he minds, he doesn't remember having a name before that. He seems harmless at first. Cute, precocious, clingy. Tends to draw out words for emphasis. The kind of boy many might think of when they hear the term 'little brother'. Oh but he gets so much more than pushy. Breaking into his new older siblings home, cleaning up their messes, rolling around in their laundry, all sorts of horrible stalker-ish behavior! And any interlopers? Any pesky younger siblings besides his cute self? Well...they'll probably meet some gruesome end. Ibitsu likes getting creative with his victims, but old reliable has always been just going at them with a sledgehammer. After all, that person said they have a younger brother! So surely Ibitsu is their only, beloved, blood-related little brother! Deranged? Delusional? Ibitsu is absolutely not any of these things, you silly goose! Ibitsu is seldom seen without his best friend: a pink stuffed bunny that he affectionately dubbed Bartholomew. Bartholomew is equally filthy, any attempts to wash him (and Ibitsu makes many attempts at washing him, it's his favorite excuse to convince his new older sibling to let him in) just have the water turning pitch black. But the idea of replacing Bartholomew is unspeakable. Never ever. Bartholomew is as irreplaceable as the bruises and sutures that Ibitsu hides under his sleeves, "precious gifts" from his past older siblings before they all met their tragic ends. Any of these sutures coming undone is liable to cause a disgusting mixture of black sludge and blood to spill forth! Ah, but his new older sibling will be liable to see these things anyway. A very unstable boy Ibitsu is, prone to self-harm if a big brother or big sister says mean and hurtful things to him. Digging nails into those precious, soft cheeks. Driving box cutters into arteries that should kill him, but never do. All while demanding to know why they would say such things to their cute little brother. Ibitsu likes a lot of things when he isn't trying to groom someone to become his ideal older sibling. He's quite good at art, and wants his older sibling to be the same. Draw lots of cute pictures of him, okay? Lolita fashion is a given, even if most of the things he wears are stolen or taken from dumpsters after they've become worn-down. His cooking is terrible, especially because he keeps putting in things that shouldn't really go in food, but one thing he does that actually tastes good is making candy. Stalking so many different people over the years has given him a few useful skills, too. Lockpicking, sleight of hand, being abnormally quiet on his feet. Things like that. As for what Ibitsu is, truly? It's something he's mum about. Anybody who learns too much, anybody who isn't precious older sibling, is liable to be shoved into that damned stuffed rabbit of his. Bartholomew is his greatest secret-keeper, after all. Anything that goes into his tummy never comes back out!