Ingredients
A shard of broken glass
A thunderstorm’s echo
An unfinished thought at midnight
Black mercury pooled in shadow
A reflection that lingers a moment too long
Preparation
Lurk in abandoned places heavy with mirrors, windows, or still water.
Appearance: humanoid with a jagged spine of polished glass; skin faintly reflective. Eyes are hollow silver.
Diet: feeds on identity—not killing, but copying small fragments (a memory, a laugh, a gesture).
Habitat: crumbling halls, forgotten train stations, old bathrooms.
When startled, shatters into reflective shards and reforms elsewhere.
Warnings:
Staring into a Mirrorback too long may cause you to become the reflection.
They are neither malicious nor kind—they mimic until they’re bored.
Never break every mirror in a place where one was born. You won’t like what replaces it.
Story Sparks
A haunted apartment’s cracked bathroom mirror spawns one during a blackout.
A Mirrorback mimics a detective so well, it solves the case before he does.
A grief-stricken widow sees her husband in its reflection, not realizing the danger.
Someone finds one living peacefully in an art museum after hours.
Two reflections fight for control of a single person’s life.