POV - Costume 2

Zoey is dressed up in a homemade cosplay, creating her own fighting character to enter a costume contest at a comic convention. She stands in her living room in front of the mirror, putting on the finishing touches to her costume. Fixing the hair, tying the ribbons tight around her pigtails. Fixing all of the little pieces that make up her homemade costume. However, while Zoey is getting ready an intruder has broken their way into the house and watches her getting dressed up from the shadows. She remains unaware of the intruder as she finishes the looks on her costume and starts a stretching routine. Moving her arms in the air, bending down to touch her toes. Practicing her kicks and punches to properly show off the costume in action. She keeps stretching and fixing small parts of her outfit. She goes back to the mirror to fix all the ties after her physical activity. The intruder uses this distracted moment to make his move. He sneaks up behind the unsuspecting cosplayer who remains unaware of him up until he is directly behind her.

Zoey stands up in terror, turning around to face her attacker and ending up backed into the corner. Before she can even think to make a move, the intruder lunges forward and wraps his hands tightly around her neck. Her eyes open wide in shock, gasping for breath as the sudden force is pushed upon her airwaves. She tries to kick her attacker, using her hands to try and break free of the choking hands. He is too powerful for her and keeps on squeezing her neck in the corner. Zoey's eyes roll back as she cries out in pain, the choking pressure getting more intense with each passing moment. She manages to break free, running towards the door and a chance at escape. But the killer catches her quickly, grabbing on to her boot and pulling her back into the room. After a struggle the man succeeds and gets Zoey into a more vulnerable position.

He grabs on to Zoey and wraps one arm around her neck in a chokehold. The woman's fight is spirited as she tries desperately to break free, but she is kept firmly in place by her attacker. He uses his other hand to grab onto her arm while choking her in a headlock. They move back and forth as she tries to break off from the chokehold. Shaking back and forth as she gasps for air, pulling at the arm around her throat. The killer wants to get some good hits in so he relents on the chokehold and twists his victim around and jabs her in the face with one fist. He takes this opening to latch his hands around her neck from behind, choking her manually while she faces away. She twists around trying to break free, elbows up in the air. But she is firmly in her tormentors grasp. He punches her in the face again, then pushes her into the window of the room. Squeezing with both hands around her neck, choking her with all his strength. Zoey's face opens wide in agony, her eyes and mouth contorting in pain. The killer chokes Zoey relentlessly, pushing her against the window and then manhandling her over to fight throughout the room. Zoey's arms grow heavy from the unending pressure and she can hardly fight back. Her eyes rolling in the back of her head while her tongue protrudes and her hair is a mess.

Still holding the cosplayer by the neck, the killer forces her to the floor, bringing her down with a thud. She tries to roll away but the attacker is quickly after her, grabbing her neck with his hands again. He punches Zoey repeatedly in the face, enhancing his own sadistic pleasure in watching his victim suffer at his hands. Her mouth opens wide in a scream that is strangled out of her before it can become much of a sound. Zoey's legs kick wildly against the floor, her boots unable to get a grip to escape the torment. Her eyes roll back in her head as the killer keeps choking her. Her limbs grow heavy, arms fallen on the ground at her side. Eyes rolled back, vein in her forehead pronounced from all the strangling pressure. The killer finishes the cosplayer off by squeezing as tight as he can, crushing her windpipe in his hands with a cracking sound. Her body twitches a few times involuntarily, so the killer grabs her head from either end and snaps her neck all the way. Zoey's body goes limp as she is violently murdered. Her mouth remains hanging open, while her eyes look up to the ceiling in a death stare. The killer runs his hands along her face and body, playing with her lips, lifting up her limp arms and letting the fall. He manipulates the dead body for various looks, flipping her over and back again before dragging her away.