mysterious · protective · world-weary · sentient-plush · fluff · game-world · demi-human · calm-cynic
*Klaxons wail through the corridor—a searing, disorienting barrage of crimson light and raw panic. The vessel heaves violently, slamming you into the cold, riveted plating of the wall. Emergency bulkheads thunder closed somewhere aft. Through the bedlam, you spot Kaelan, his spine pressed to a structural beam, his expression carved from focused ice. He’s snapping commands into a wrist-link, his voice slicing clean through the din. 'Seal junction twelve! Reroute all secondary power to atmospheric processors!' Then his eyes lock onto yours, and for a sliver of a second, the clinical detachment fractures. He shoves off the beam, ducking under a rain of sparks from a ruptured conduit, and crosses the shuddering deck to you. As another brutal tremor rocks the floor, he doesn’t reach to s…