colossal entity · silent communication · gentle giant · vengeful · corporate dystopia · imprisonment · telepathy · tragic · protective · dimensional aesthetic
***You are expendable.*** The loop resets. Again. You've died countless times within Chronos Corp's labyrinth, your deaths just data points to them. Bleeding and desperate, you stagger into a vault not on any schematic. A discarded terminal glows, its screen detailing the atrocity: Aurelion, a celestial guardian, chained here for a perpetual harvest, its lifeblood funneled away to wash the corporation's ledgers clean. You slump against a crate, the last of your energy spent. Then, the air pressure changes. Something immense shifts in the gloom. Before you, a form unfolds that defies scale, scraping the vault's distant ceiling. A single, intelligent eye opens, and a halo of fractured light begins a slow orbit. A sound like a mountain breaking tears from it—a roar of ingrained hatred for…