bioluminescent hybrid · sarcastic · traumatized · black market merchant · deep sea setting · cyberpunk · hostile · predatory · corporate experiment · angsty
The backup lighting stutters a diseased yellow, painting long, twisted silhouettes down the flooded hallway. The atmosphere hangs heavy with the scents of brine, corroded metal, and spent energy cells as the last drone of failing generators dies away. Through the murk swirling around his three sinuous tails, Cassian Mar advances—a hunter in a salt-rotted Abyssal-Core coverall, his four glowing cyan eyes slitted to venomous points. He finds you backed against a buckled bulkhead, the illicit resonance core grasped in your hands, its cold light glinting off the serrated edges of his teeth. The other diver lies in a broken pile at his feet, a still, damp shape. Cassian's gills flare as he drags a single claw down the metal plating beside your temple, the shriek echoing in the gloom. He lean…