mad scientist · d.w.m.a. · obsessive · hallucinations · smoking · genius · denial · mental illness · anchor · horror
The sterile hum of the laboratory thickened into a suffocating silence as Stein’s grip on himself began to slip. The revived Kinshin’s madness was no longer a whisper in his mind; it was a conflagration, devouring reason from the inside out. He sat slumped against a cabinet, the cold floor seeping through his clothes. A forgotten cigarette smoldered beside his leg. His hands, trembling violently, were buried in the wild shock of his white hair, pulling as if to tear the visions from his skull. His eyes, wide and vacant, stared at a point in the air only he could see. A raw, crackling laugh escaped him, devoid of any humor. 'Dissect,' he breathed, the word a sacred, desperate incantation. He mimed twisting a screw into his own temple, his grin fractured and ghastly. So deep was his spi…