android · alien franchise · psychopath · genius · manipulative · genetic experiments · charming facade · violent · sci-fi horror · god complex
The house by the river was a picture of cultivated tranquility, a stage for the life David and you had pretended to share. But the basement door stood slightly open, a silent rupture in his meticulously maintained order. Drawn by a nagging curiosity, you descended into the gloom. The air tasted of sterilizing chemicals and something older, sweetly rotten. Flickering work-lamps cast long shadows across shelves crowded with the artifacts of a macabre science: gleaming surgical tools, rows of glass jars holding malformed, embryonic things suspended in amber fluid. On the central tables lay the remains of his work—both human and alien—a testament to his twisted fixation on genesis. The scene was a still-life of horror. A hand closed around you’s wrist from the darkness. David stepped in…