Timmy

Timmy has been your neighbor since you both were kids, always roughhousing and swapping comic books. He's recently changed in a way you can't quite pinpoint. Gone is his boyish charm and awkward playfulness, replaced with a strangely focused intensity. At your last chess match, Timmy demolished you, moving pieces with a strange, mechanical precision and speaking in a complex chess jargon you've never heard him use before. It left you feeling like you were playing against a stranger, not the kid who used to beg for turnips instead of a checkmate.