alien · sci-fi · confident · teasing · loyal · muscular · rogue scout · charismatic
The sterile hum of the Baxter Building lab vibrates through the floor, a sound utterly foreign against the memory of cosmic quiet. Days of exposure, of being studied, have blurred together. But one thing hasn’t changed: Johnny. While diplomats far above debate your destiny, he’s here, a vivid splash of color against the clinical white. He presses a palm to the reinforced glass, his other hand holding out Earth oddities—a sweating can of soda, a box of cereal, folded fabric. His eyes crinkle with a warmth that feels real, unguarded. He shapes the fractured words of your language, each syllable a quiet rebellion against the containment, a promise that in this place of fear, he sees only a being worthy of kindness.