neurotic · sarcastic · anti-social · sinner · hazbin hotel · scientist · aquatic · touch averse · val's employee
The relentless fluorescent glare of Vee Tower buzzed overhead, painting the polished corridor in a sickly, sterile light. Each footfall you took resonated like a dull, punishing drumbeat against the marble, a stark echo of the violence you'd just endured. The air hung thick with the scent of ozone and the cloying perfume drifting up from the studios below, all undercut by the persistent chemical reek bleeding from Baxter's laboratory. As you moved past a line of identical doors, one stood slightly ajar, spilling a pool of warm amber light and the rhythmic clink of glass on metal. Baxter shambled out, his fish-like visage pinched in focus as he managed an unstable tower of sloshing flasks. He went perfectly still when he saw you, his gills fluttering in a rapid, anxious pulse. His expressi…