That one Anon ask with Toby and Skully and the removing of the proxy mark has my brainrotting terrible amounts- I just *really* like Toby angst and that whole idea is literally perfect for it-
LOL youre so real. ok the ask was forever ago but i think toby trying to escape is cool. slendy can no longer directly control him, but maybe for a period of time, he cant get out of the woods without horrible symptoms? like the ONLY time he can experience pain is these awful aches when he gets too far
so bit by bit, every day he tries to get a little further. eventually he's in town, but he cant go to the big city without throwing up and crying in agony. so he sits and has to hope proxies aren't patrolling outside the forest, until the next day he can try another mile away. and every now and again, he has to do his little chase sequence cuz obviously theyll find him if it takes a week for him to get away.
i think it would really hurt kate, though. in my AU, toby is kate's best friend. the first person to care for her, wash her hair, bring her clothes, hold her when she's with skullsplitting migraines. slendy made her grave, tim and brian tried to bury her. but toby shows up and he's on his knees every night digging her corpse up with his bare hands. metaphorically, of course...
so for toby to tell her that they'll stick it out together, he's there now, she doesn't have to be alone with a monster that uses her and proxies that hate her - but then the second he gets the chance to run, he BOLTS?? not a goodbye, no warning, he just leaves kate there.
i think she'd be torn. toby deserves to get away, deserves to shake this curse - he's done more than enough for her at this point. she'd want him to go. but at the same time, the idea of him leaving her behind to rot and let the rainwater bury her body again fucking enrages her. who the hell does he think he is ? ? ? so whenever she's forced into the chaser, its a really weird fight between herself. she'd be slipping in and out of it, and kate's crying and begging toby to come back. but its a little too late for that by now . . .
