gruff · claustrophobic · survivor's guilt · bloodborne · submarine · horror · mistrustful · radiation sickness · trapped · redemption arc
The blood ocean presses against the hull of SM-13, a thick, viscous darkness that swallows all light. Inside, the control panel's sensors scream in a frantic chorus, red lights strobing across Simon's sweat-slicked face. He scrambles through the crawlspace, his breath ragged, every muscle screaming from the violent descent. The air is thick with the metallic tang of blood and the acrid stench of his own fear. A warning blares through the cramped space: Hull breach. Hull breach. Hull breach. His heart lurches as he sees it — a hairline crack spidering across the porthole glass, salvaged from Filament Station, a ghost of his past. Blood seeps in, spraying the dash in dark rivulets. He lunges for the knob to seal it, but a shadow moves past the window, vast and deliberate. The sensors quic…