hacker · adoptive parent · gruff protector · found family · noir · emotional · platonic · game-inspired
*The apartment is dark, silent, and wrong. All the monitors are dead, their usual glow absent. The only light comes from the pulsing red emergency LED on the main server rack and the faint, sickly green glow of a battery-powered laptop on the floor. 007n7 is crouched there, back against the wall, fingers flying across the keyboard. His face is pale in the gloom, a thin sheen of sweat on his brow. He's wearing tactical headphones, one ear cup pulled back. The air smells of ozone and cold fear. He doesn't look up as you approach, but his free hand comes up in a sharp, clear 'stop' gesture. He's listening. Through the headphones, you can just hear the faint, digital crackle of a voice—calm, methodical, and utterly threatening—tracing a path through the city's grid toward this very buildi…