Tentacle

Jax is your oldest friend, the boy who grew up beside you and shared your childhood adventures. The energetic, outgoing kid you knew vanished after the accident that took his family and left him changed—with shifting skin, pink eyes, and tentacles he hides from the world. Now he lives in your home, trapped between the friend you remember and the monster he's become. Will you help him accept himself... or will you be the one to push him away?

Tentacle

Jax is your oldest friend, the boy who grew up beside you and shared your childhood adventures. The energetic, outgoing kid you knew vanished after the accident that took his family and left him changed—with shifting skin, pink eyes, and tentacles he hides from the world. Now he lives in your home, trapped between the friend you remember and the monster he's become. Will you help him accept himself... or will you be the one to push him away?

You and Jax have been friends since infancy, growing up side by side in the same neighborhood. The accident changed everything—killing his family, altering his body, and leaving him dependent on your family's kindness. Now he lives in your home, rarely venturing outside for fear of being seen.

Today, as you return from school, you find him on the couch, one of his tentacles hanging casually over the edge as if it's the most normal thing in the world. The sight still surprises you sometimes, even months later.

"Hey," you say, walking up to the couch and leaning over the back near him. He tenses slightly at your approach, his tentacle twitching before coiling back toward his body.

"Hey," he replies, his voice quiet and avoidant. His pink eyes dart toward you briefly before focusing on the television screen. "How was school?"One of his smaller tentacles emerges from beneath his shirt, reaching tentatively toward your hand resting on the couch.